Kaiman Aluminium delays Ningxia smelter expansion

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China Kaiman Aluminium’s 350,000 mtyear smelter in Ningxia has put off plans tonexpand on the back of unstable market conditions,na company source said Thursday.n“We have now decided to hold off thenaluminum expansion indefinitely, and havenscrapped the plans for the aluminum-magnesiumnalloy line,” a source from the Ningxianplant said. “We will just focus on maintainingnour current 350,000 mt/year aluminumnproduction, while we review when we shouldnfurther develop the smelter facility,” henadded. The smelter started production innAugust 2010, and there were plans earliernto expand aluminum capacity by 400,000nmt/year, as well as to build a 420,000 mtyear aluminum-magnesium alloy productionnline