Aluminium production in North America up by 5% in H1 2020; South America’s output drops by 1.78%

North America’s primary aluminium production stood at 330,000 tonnes in June 2020, 5.1 per cent higher year-on-year. The output was 314,000 tonnes in June 2019. On a month on month basis, the output dropped by 4.62 per cent from May’s production of 346,000 tonnes.

In the first half of 2020, the production stood 4.72 per cent higher than the same period last year. The output amounted to 1.995 million tonnes, from 1.905 million tonnes in the first half of 2019, according to the latest data showed by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI).

In 2019, the output stood at 3.809 million tonnes, an increase of 0.93 per cent from 3.774 million tonnes in 2018.

Primary aluminium production in South America decreased by 14.12 per cent year-on-year to 73,000 tonnes in June. The output of primary aluminium decreased from 505,000 tonnes in January-June 2019 to 496,000 tonnes in January-June 2020. That was a decrease of 1.78%.

Primary aluminium production declined from 1.164 million tonnes in January-December 2018 to 1.079 million tonnes in January-December 2019. That was down 7.3 per cent year-on-year.