SYDNEY, May 21  - Production at Nyrstar’s 265,000-tonnes-per-year zinc Hobart refinery in Australia has been cut by 20 percent indefinitely due to an electrical fire, the company said on Friday.

The blaze broke out late on Thursday night and took about three hours to extinguish, a spokeswoman for Dutch-based Nyrstar said from the site on Tasmania island off the east coast of Australia.

The damage was still being assessed, she said.

‘The damage assessment is underway and will take some time. At this point we estimate production loss to be approximately 20 percent,’ she said. ‘We do not expect that the production loss will have any impact on our customers in the immediate future.’


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