The G20 summit is here, do you know the impact of stainless steel?
The 2016 China Hangzhou G20 Summit will be held from September 4 to 5, 2016. As the first city in China to host the G20, in order to ensure the urban environment of Hangzhou during the conference, to achieve “Hangzhou Blue”, the environmental quality of Zhejiang Province will be rectified and backward. The elimination of production capacity and the cessation of production and restriction of industrial enterprises have all been carried out as important tasks.
According to the “G20 Summit Zhejiang Province Environmental Protection Work Plan”, the core area, strict control area, and control area are delineated with the main venue as the center and the reference radius of 50 kilometers, 100 kilometers, and 300 kilometers. According to the “Plan”, Dongfang Special Steel in Jiaxing City, some steel mills in Ningbo City, and some steel mills in Taizhou City are located in the strict control zone and the control zone respectively.
Based on the previous operating experience of the APEC Beijing Summit in 2014 and the military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War on 9.3 in 2015, the production of steel plants in the above-mentioned regions will be affected: stainless steel plants within 200 kilometers near Hangzhou, especially steel plants, will need to be closed A month.
Affected by this, several steel mills have confirmed that they will suspend production next month, and the remaining steel mills have also indicated that there is a greater possibility of suspending production; and for steel rolling and cold rolling enterprises, the impact is relatively small and no restrictions have been imposed. Production is discontinued, but some larger manufacturers may be subject to relevant regulations in some areas.
At the same time, according to the “Plan”, starting from August, all logistics trucks are prohibited from entering Zhejiang. From August 24th to September 6th, logistics in Hangzhou city will be suspended, factories in the city will be closed for holidays and trucks will be suspended! Affected by this, the transportation of stainless steel in Hangzhou will also be affected.