Chinese aluminium producer Xinfa Group is planning to restart operations at its Jiaokou alumina refinery in Shanxi province by mid-September, market sources told Fastmarkets on Monday September 2.
"I heard they are going to resume production on September 15 and they have started raw material preparation for that," an alumina trader in Northern China said.Xinfa was ordered to halt operations at its 2.8 million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery in Jiakou city, Shanxi, following an investigation by local authorities into a chemical leakage at one of Xinfa's alumina refineries in Xiaoyi city, also in Shanxi, on May 8.There has been no official announcement from Xinfa regarding the possible restart of operations...