Adv
LANGUAGES
English
Hindi
Spanish
French
German
Chinese_Simplified
Chinese_Traditional
Japanese
Russian
Arabic
Portuguese
Bengali
Italian
Dutch
Greek
Korean
Turkish
Vietnamese
Hebrew
Polish
Ukrainian
Indonesian
Thai
Swedish
Romanian
Hungarian
Czech
Finnish
Danish
Filipino
Malay
Swahili
Tamil
Telugu
Gujarati
Marathi
Kannada
Malayalam
Punjabi
Urdu
21 JANUARY 2020 AL CIRCLE

World primary aluminium production slightly down in 2019; December production drops 1.11% YoY

EDITED BY : HEENA IQBAL 1MINS READ

Global primary aluminium production totalled 5.435 million tonnes in December, with a year-on-year drop of 1.11%, according to the latest data showed by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) on Monday, 20 January 2020. The output rose by 3.35% from 5.259 million tonnes in November and 1.61% from 5.349 million tonnes in October.

aluminium

{alcircleadd}

For the full year, primary aluminium came in at 63.690 million tonnes, slightly down by 1% from 64.336 million tonnes in 2018.

In Asia ex-China, aluminium production declined by 3.41% year-on-year, but up 2.97% month-on-month to 368,000 tonnes in December. Output in January-December amounted to 4.395 million tonnes, a decrease of 0.45% from January-December 2018’s production.

aluminium

In the Middle East, primary aluminium production stood at 499,000 tonnes and 5.644 million tonnes in December and January-December, up by 11.63% YoY and 5.87% YoY. Europe’s primary aluminium production totalled 651,000 tonnes in December, unchanged from last year. In 2019, total production stood at 7.606 million tonnes, a decrease of 2.26% YoY.

China’s estimated primary aluminium production stood at 35.797 million tonnes in 2019 IAI data showed.


Adv
Adv
Adv
Adv
Adv
Adv
Adv
EDITED BY : HEENA IQBAL 1MINS READ

Responses

Adv
Adv
Adv
Loading...
Adv
Adv
Adv
Loading...
Reports VIEW ALL
Loading...
Loading...
Business Leads VIEW ON AL BIZ
Loading...
Adv
Adv
Would you like to be
featured with us?
Loading...

AL Circle: Aluminium Ecosystem App

A proud
ASI member
© 2026 AL Circle. All rights reserved. AL Circle is not responsible for content from external sources.