According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 703 million pounds of aluminium scrap during February 2018, down 3.1 per cent from the February 2017 total. USGS estimates that recovery of aluminium and aluminium alloys totalled 291,000 tonnes in February 2018, a decrease of 3.0 per cent year-over-year. The amount is slightly less than the revised amount in January 2018. Of this, 166,000 t of aluminum was recovered from new scrap and 125,000 t was recovered from old scrap.
Through the first two months of 2018, preliminary data indicate that recovery of aluminium from scrap totalled an estimated 585,134 tonnes, off 2.2 percent over year-to-date 2017. U.S. exports of scrap, not included in the government’s consumption statistics, totalled 240,000 tonnes year-to-date, up 9.2 per cent over the same period of 2017.
Domestic primary aluminum production in February 2018 was 61,000 metric tons (t). The average daily production in February was 2,180 t, slightly more than that in January 2018, 8% more than that in February 2017, but 26% less than that in February 2016 (fig. 1, table 1).
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