Tito Martins
Analyst · Bradesco BBI. Please go ahead
Thank you for your questions, Isabella. We are fine. I hope you are also fine with your family. Regarding demand, what we are seeing so far, clearly, there was a major drop in demand in our home mark. By home mark, we mean everything below Mexico and LatAm. Brazilian customers, Argentinian customers, they are not doing well, they still make us do – we’re were almost completely closed for more than 45 days. That’s the reason why we decided actually to reduce production in Juiz de Fora for a couple of months exactly to monitor and see how the demand will behave, and being able actually to produce – to not produce in excess and generate more stocks in our facility in Brazil. In general, what we are seeing abroad, and I mean, in Asia, is there is an adjustment in the market right now. If you notice, the price of zinc is coming up in the last two weeks. Now it’s around $1,000 per ton already coming from almost $16.50 per ton, 45 days ago. Looks like the lockdown in Peru and associated with a recovery in China has been supporting the price to come up. And also, we’ve seen already a reduction in the stocks around the world, metal stocks around the world, which implies that the recovery in Asia is actually being able to demand more than has been supplied everywhere. Of course, a lot of uncertainties. We don’t know where it’ll be takings us. How it will move in the next few month, but we are paying a lot of attention to that. Regarding the second question, the operations in Peru. We are coming back with Cerro Lindo, El Porvenir, as was mentioned before. Atacocha, because of its size, will remain suspended at least for the next month. It’s going to be interesting to see how the return is done. A lot of protocol, a lot of arrangements to be made in order to have our people back to the site. And hopefully, we can return at that question next month.