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Global zinc long-term outlook Q1 2019

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Why buy this report?

Access our most up-to-date forecasts of refined zinc and concentrate supply, demand and prices, and understand zinc market dynamics affecting zinc to 2040.

What key questions does this zinc report answer?

  • How will decelerating economic growth in Europe and China affect zinc consumption?
  • Where do we see new zinc demand coming from?
  • Will the zinc industry be able to build new capacity to meet growth in the zinc market demand?
  • What we expect for mine supply and production and how this will impact market balances.

This zinc market report also comes with charts and data sets, including this analysis of market balances.

Global zinc balance

The Global Zinc Metal Market Long-term Outlook provides the latest update of detailed supply and demand analysis and price forecasts for the zinc market out to 2040. In the medium to long term, the key issue is whether the zinc smelting industry will be able to raise utilisation rates and build new capacity to meet growth in demand for metal. This structural issue will play a pivotal role in the zinc price climbing to its highest level for 10 years.

Table of contents

  • Key Points
  • Demand – what's changed?
  • Supply – what's changed?
    • China
    • Japan
    • India
    • Europe
    • USA
    • First use
    • End use
    • Overview
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Europe
    • Latin America
    • Middle East
    • North America
    • Oceania
    • 2 more item(s)...
    • Overview
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Europe
    • Russia and the Caspian
    • Middle East
    • Latin America
    • North America
    • 5 more item(s)...

Tables and charts

This report includes the following images and tables:

  • Manufacturing activity in all of the world's major economies is expanding
  • Global slab zinc consumption by region
  • Global slab zinc consumption by region
  • Global slowdown a risk
  • The need to lighten cars helped reduce zinc's intensity of use
  • China totally dominates global zinc consumption
  • Chinese per capita consumption will not track Japan and South Korea
  • Asia (ex-China) consumption
  • Indian first use is dominated by galvanizing
  • European zinc consumption will stagnate
  • European construction activity slumps
  • Turkey is forecast to become Europe's largest zinc consumer
  • 37 more item(s)...

What's included

This report contains:

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    Global zinc long-term outlook Q1 2019

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