China's Mingtai shrugs off US aluminium sheet probe

Henan Mingtai Aluminum, one of China's biggest aluminium sheet manufacturers, on Tuesday said it expected its production and sales to keep growing in 2018 despite the launch of US trade probes into imports of the product from China. Mingtai, with a production capacity of 650 000 tonnes per year of semi-finished aluminium products, is the first Chinese firm to make a public statement about the twin anti-subsidy and anti-dumping probes into Chinese aluminum alloy sheet announced by Washington last month.