The country's first half falls between April and September.
The increase comes as Mitsubishi Materials took full
ownership of its Onahama Smelting and Refining copper joint
venture in March, buying the stakes of DOWA Holdings and Furukawa Co .
Following are details of the company's output plan, with
comparisons against planned production in the second half and
actual production in the first half of the 2022/23 financial
year, which ended on March 31.
(Copper and lead in tonnes):
H1 FY23/24 H2 FY22/23 H1 FY22/23
Copper 213,198 160,632 181,980
Lead 14,322 14,154 13,470
(Reporting by Yuka Obayashi
Editing by Bernadette Baum)
TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Materials
Corp plans to produce 213,198 tonnes of refined copper
in the first half of the 2023/24 financial year, it said on
Monday, up 17.2% from the same period a year earlier.
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