{"id":7919,"date":"2012-02-13T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/xstrata-shuts-2-furnaces-output-not-affected\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:21","slug":"xstrata-shuts-2-furnaces-output-not-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/xstrata-shuts-2-furnaces-output-not-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Xstrata shuts 2 furnaces, output not affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Xstrata has<br \/>\nswitched off two chrome furnaces at its Rustenburg plant in<br \/>\nSouth Africa to help power utility Eskom save power,<br \/>\nbut said on Monday that supplies to customers would not be<br \/>\naffected.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Songezo Zibi said maintenance at the furnaces had<br \/>\nbeen brought forward from its usual schedule in South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nJune\/July winter because the national grid is under particular<br \/>\nstrain right now due to unplanned outages at some of Eskom&#8217;s<br \/>\npower plants.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zibi said the lost production would be made up by higher<br \/>\noutput at some of its other smelters, some of which are around<br \/>\n30 percent more energy efficient than the Rustenburg ones.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be able to meet customer demand because we have not<br \/>\nreduced overall planned production,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zibi said it was not clear yet how long the maintenance<br \/>\nprogramme would last.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Xstrata has switched off two chrome furnaces at its Rustenburg plant in South Africa to help power utility Eskom save power, but said on Monday that supplies to customers would not be affected. Spokesman Songezo Zibi said maintenance at the furnaces had been brought forward from its usual schedule in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}