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  • Chinese GE Producers shut shop as New Year Holidays Loom

    Chinese GE Producers shut shop as New Year Holidays Loom

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    Aditi Tiwari
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    As the week-long Chinese New Year break over 24-30 January approaches, China’s graphite electrode market has embraced the holiday mood and quietened markedly off late. This has encouraged many electrode producers to halt operations and suspend business early to prepare for Chinese New Year (CNY), the country’s most important festival. “Almost all small independent electric-arc-furnace…