According to the statistics from the World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS), the total short-supply of global primary aluminum in the first nine months of this year was around 530,000 tons, not far from the whole year's level in 2018’s around 631,000 tons.
In the same period, the total demand for primary aluminum in the world had also decreased by 1% year on year, came to around 47 million tons, and the total production of primary aluminum was decreased by 0.8%, by around 362,000 tons.
Among them, the total production in China was around 26 million tons, counted by around 57% of the total in the world, showed slightly increase by 1% year on year.
Global aluminum’s short-supply hits 530,000 tons in first 9 months, 2019
22 Nov 2019 10:42 reported by Jordan Huang
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