Delong Holdings Limited provides earnings guidance for the full year ended December 31, 2011. For the year, the company expected to report a loss as compared to a profit for the corresponding financial year. The estimated loss is associated with lower production output in first quarter of 2011 due to a 5-week maintenance programme carried out at two of the Group's blast furnaces, a decrease in demand for Hot Rolled Coil products in fourth quarter of 2011 as well as significantly higher raw material prices, which outpaced the increase in average selling prices for Hot Rolled Coil. The loss was also partially due to an impairment charge on its mill roll facility recorded in fourth quarter of 2011.