TOKYO: China’s drive to improve air quality is proving a boon to global steelmakers.
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp, Japan’s biggest producer, enjoyed a nine-fold surge in first-half profit as China’s crackdown on pollution and bloated industrial capacity lifted prices to the highest level in more than five years.
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