A group of large Chinese aluminium producers met this week to come up with a plan to address oversupply of the metal and support falling prices, although details of their agreement remain vague. Chinese oversupply has played a major role in the de- pressed global aluminium market, leading in turn to falling prices for anode-grade petroleum coke, an aluminium feed- stock. Competition from Chinese smelters has led to the shut- down of nearly all US aluminium smelting capacity, straining the US coke calcining industry.
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