Non-ferrous metal industry sees signs of rebound
March 20, 2009
China’s non-ferrous metal industry is showing some signs of recovery with major companies recording narrower losses, an industry association official said on Thursday.Sixty-nine of the country’s leading 73 non-ferrous companies recorded a combined loss of 3.8 billion yuan ($556 million)Â in the Jan-Feb period, according to Kang Yi, chairman of the China Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA).
The average monthly net loss, or 1.9 billion yuan, is much lower than the loss of 5.9 billion yuan major metal companies recorded in December 2008, Kang said, adding 53 metal companies saw their losses narrow during the first two months of this year.
For the 2008 full year, the industry earned a profit of about 80 billion yuan, down 45 percent compared with 2007, according to the association.
Source: China Daily
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Manganese is a gray-white metal, resembling iron. It is a hard metal and is very brittle, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Manganese metal and its common ions are paramagnetic. While manganese metal does not form a permanent magnet, it does exhibit strong magnetic properties in the presence of an external magnetic field.
The most common oxidation states of manganese are +2, +3, +4, +6 and +7, though oxidation states from +1 to +7 are observed. Mn2+ often competes with Mg2+ in biological systems, and manganese compounds where manganese is in oxidation state +7 are powerful oxidizing agents.
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