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Major potash producer fails in fifth bid to raise funds
    2020-01-02  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

QINGHAI Salt Lake Potash Co., the largest potash producer in China, failed to sell its assets in a fifth round of auctions yesterday aimed at raising funds and avoid being delisted from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

The debt-laden company filed for bankruptcy with a Qinghai court in September and halted trading in its shares in November.

After posting net losses in 2017 and 2018, Qinghai Salt Lake Potash has said it would be delisted if it reported a net loss for third successive year.

A 24-hour auction on China’s Taobao e-commerce site listed equity, shares and debt receivables in two of its subsidiaries, plus fixed assets and inventories, for sale.

The assets were valued at 25.425 billion yuan (US$3.64 billion), but drew an opening price of only around 4.27 billion yuan, according to the auction listings on Alibaba-owned ecommerce site Taobao.

At the end of the latest auction yesterday, Qinghai Salt Lake had garnered no bidders, according to the site. Four previous auctions held in the past month also failed to attract any bids, the company said in a regulatory filing in December.

Investors in the State-owned company include oil-and-chemical conglomerate Sinochem Group.

“Should the company be forced to file for bankruptcy protection, we don’t believe this would materially impact its potash business,” said Humphrey Knight, senior analyst for potash at CRU International.

“However, if this did result in a slowdown in Qinghai Salt Lake’s potash production, then this would hand the advantage to overseas producers as it could increase China’s dependency on potash imports,” said Knight, adding that China relies on imports of potash, widely used as a fertilizer, for about half its total annual demand.

Qinghai Salt Lake Potash, named after the province where it is based and known as China’s “potash king,” reported losses for both 2017 and 2018.

A third year of losses for the firm, which is 27 percent owned by the provincial government of Qinghai and 20 percent held by Sinochem, would result in the company’s delisting from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2020, as mandated by bourse rules.

(SD-Agencies)

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