
According to the data showed by International Aluminium Institute (IAI), world primary aluminium output rose 2.5% year-on-year in September to stand at 5.301 million tonnes.
The figure was down 3.4% from 5.485 million tonnes in August, while on a daily basis production was down month-on-month at 176,700 tonne per day.
{alcircleadd}The total primary aluminium production stood at 48.02 million tonnes in January to September 2018 as against 47.86 million tonnes in January to September 2017.The figure was up by 0.3% year-on-year.

In China, the primary aluminium production increased 3.6% year-on-year to 3 million tonnes in September. For the period January-September, the country produced 27.17 million tonnes of white metal, down 0.7% year on year.
Europe primary aluminium production totalled at 644,00 tonnes in September, up 0.8% from the corresponding period previous year. North America produced 310,000 tonnes of primary aluminium, down 4.3% year on year and down 3.1% month on month.
In Asia ex-China, primary aluminium production increased to 364,000 tonnes in September; in the Middle East, the production was 437,000 tonnes last month, up 8.2% higher year-on-year.
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