Smelters in a sentence

Flash smelters account for over 50% of the world's copper smelters.

Chinese smelters may be able to get better treatment terms from Freeport but the volume of tonnage that can be allocated over the full year is uncertain.

Located beside a crystal-blue lake in the lush jungle of Sorowako, South Sulawesi, Vale Indonesia — a subsidiary of Vale international — runs its smelters entirely from hydroelectricity.

The closure of older smelters in the rest of the world could be the outcome.

Among those, thousands of Greek migrants died while laboring in the nations’ industrial zones: railroads, smelters, lumber yards, hydroelectric plants, and textile manufacturing facilities.

But prospects for significant changes seem uncertain since the country, instead of switching off coal-fired power plants, is building new ones to power refineries and metal smelters in industrial parks across the country.

European smelters' capacity utilization is still running below 50%, because of the high cost of electricity and the lower price of aluminum.

In addition to the new smelters, coal power plants have sprung up to serve the miles of new industrial parks.

Smelters fall between the 1.8 and 4 percent bracket, while refineries are within the 1.5 to 3.3 percent range.

The Indonesian nickel production boom rolls on and a new generation of Chinese smelters is now converting the country's relatively low-grade resource into Class I refined metal that can be delivered to both the LME and the Shanghai Futures Exchange.

The land around the mine was cleared extensively to provide construction materials and fuel for the smelters, writes Robins.

Two Chinese copper smelters have announced plans to reduce production next year due to diminishing profit margins caused by an ongoing shortage of ore concentrate, on Tuesday (July 16).

We’ve obviously got the mass pool reduction, which allows us to increase the throughput through these 2 particular smelters.

Most ferrochrome smelters have been put under care and maintenance, with Zimasco having started since March 25, 2020.

Smelters can keep liquid for a week on low power.

No companies have announced plans to build new primary aluminum smelters in the United States, and analysts don’t expect them to, even if the tariffs remain indefinitely, because high American electricity costs make such investments unattractive.

Though the steel industry has now surpassed that marker, U.S. aluminum smelters are unlikely to move above 60 per cent this year, said John Mothersole, director of pricing and purchasing at IHS Markit in Washington.

Sinosteel agreed to build two ferrochrome smelters in Zvishavane and another one in Kwekwe, where it already operates the country’s largest ferrochrome plant.

That is not without some basis, as robust demand has been constrained by tight supply and with Chinese smelters hit by Beijing’s environmental campaign to close energy-intensive manufacturing activities during the winter heating season.

The change affects emissions at facilities such as pulp and paper mills, cement kilns, aluminum smelters, and businesses with extremely large generators like data centers.