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China’s Wenshan Aluminum to begin operation of 1st potline for 500,000-ton project at end Apr

20 Apr 2020 16:42 reported by Margaret Yeh

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According to the report, China’s Wenshan Aluminum Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Yunnan Wenshan Aluminum Co Ltd., would begin operation of its first potline at the end of April for a hydropower and 500,000-ton aluminum smelting project with a total estimated investment of RMB 4 billion.

The company had invested about RMB 800,000 million for the project already. It was said that the hydropower and aluminum smelting project would have a capacity of 3.43 million tons in Wenshan prefecture. The company was also managing an aluminum refinery and having an alumina output of 266,000 tons in the first quarter of 2020.