BHP Billiton annual output reduce 120,000 ton

Mar 14—On Mar 13, BHP Billiton declared its annual output reduce 120,000 ton because of power disruptions in South Africa. Jan. 24th, South Africa start power company Eskom announce its electricity supply is can’t fill the demand and it has demand large industry enterprise such as BHP Billiton should reduce 10% of their power consumption. BHP Billiton is reduce this volume initially by decrease the consumption of its aluminum smelters on South Africa, yet that can’t carry on for a long time, so BHP discussed several ways to solve this problem. According to this discussion, they choose Bayside to undertake most of the reduction responsibility, and the left on Hillside and Mozal smelter. Under this situation, the output of this three smelters reduce 120,000 ton totally. Yesterday, BHP Billiton has start to use BHP Billiton China site formally: www.bhpbilliyon.com.cn.