Poland's KGHM optimistic of meeting 2018 output plan
WARSAW – Poland's KGHM, one of the world's biggest copper and silver producers, will achieve its 2018 copper production plan despite a fall in output in the first half of the year, the company's chief executive said on Friday.
"Looking at the results planned for 2018 we are optimistic and we assume that they will be achieved," Marcin Chludzinski told a press conference after KGHM reported a 50% fall in second-quarter net profit.
Earnings were hit by lower output due to planned maintenance at its key smelter in Glogow, Poland.
KGHM said that in the first half of the year production of electrolytic copper from its own concentrates fell by 7% to 171 000 t, compared with a full-year plan of 381 000 t.
Copper production at the Chilean Sierra Gorda mine, KGHM's flagship foreign project in which it has a 55% share, fell by 10% year-on-year to 25 000 t, versus a full year target of 59 000 t.
Chludzinski added that KGHM is working on a strategy update which he expects to be published by the end of the year.
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