China's refined copper output was 634,000 mt in July, up 18.9% from around 533,000 mt recorded in July 2013, an official from state-owned nonferrous metals information division Beijing Antaike said Monday, citing data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
The July output was up 1.7% from June's production of 623,428 mt. The Antaike official said that the higher output was in line with an increase in capacity this year.
China's copper capacity is expected to rise to around 10 million mt in 2014, up about 11.1% from 2013.
Meanwhile, based on Antaike's earlier statement, Platts calculated that the production totaled 4.11 million mt for January-July, up 8.4% year on year.
