Doe Run Smelter slowdown to shutdown Peruvian zinc

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Fri, Mar 20, 2009
Zinc Company News
Post by Melissa Pistilli, Zinc Senior Reporter

Renco Group Inc.’s Doe Run Peru unit, the country’s fourth-largest exporter reported shutdown of its zinc- and lead-processing plants after a group of banks froze its accounts last month, curtailing the nation’s metal supplies.

Luis Castillo, general secretary of the Mining Federation, said:

We will meet with Energy & Mines Ministry officials to find out if the company can be saved.

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