
North America’s primary aluminium production dropped by 1.52% year-on-year from 329,000 tonnes but up 4.18% month-on-month from 311,000 tonnes to 324,000 tonnes in December 2019.
The output for the full year 2019 stood slightly higher at 3.809 million tonnes, an increase of 0.93% from 3.774 million tonnes in 2018, according to the latest data showed by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI).
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South America produced 96,000 tonnes of primary aluminium in December, an increase of 4.35% from 92,000 tonnes in December 2018. On a month-on-month comparison, output increased by 1.05% from 95,000 tonnes in November.
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% year-on-year.
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