Japan’s Copper-Alloy Output May Rise 4% in 2013 on Weaker Yen
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Japan’s output of copper and copper-alloy fabricated products may increase about 4 percent in 2013, rising for the first time in three years on the nation’s effort to revive its economy and to weaken the yen.
Production, including sheets and tubes, is estimated to reach slightly over 800,000 metric tons in calendar 2013, Tetsu Takahashi, chairman of the Japan Copper & Brass Association, said today in Tokyo. The country’s output may total about 770,000 tons in 2012, the second straight yearly drop and the lowest level since 2009, he said.