Vale closes for 6 months its French manganese plant

Monday, 08 September 2008 13:10:51 (GMT+3)   |  
       

The world's largest iron ore producer, Brazilian miner Vale, has announced that operations at its French subsidiary Rio Doce Manganèse Europe (RDME) have been suspended following a metal leakage in the electrical furnace.

Operations at the plant are to remain interrupted for a period of six months until February 2009.

Vale estimates that RDME's shutdown will result in a drop of 45,000 metric tons in its ferroalloy production.

RDME had already been operating at 60 percent of its installed capacity since an accident in August 2007.


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