China¡¯s production of alumina down 9.7% in November: NBS

China’s production of alumina stood at 5.67 million tonnes in November, with a year-on-year drop of 9.7 per cent, showed the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

China produced 66.49 million tonnes of alumina in the first nine months of 2019, a drop of 0.7 per cent from the same period last year. Alumina production increased by 4.4 per cent in the first eight months of this year.

NBS data also showed that China’s primary aluminium production declined 3.2 per cent from a year ago to 2.9 million tonnes in November. Aluminium production in the first eleven months of 2019 totalled 32.13 million tonnes, down 0.6 per cent from the same period last year.

The World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS) reported on Tuesday that the world primary aluminium market saw a deficit of 298,000 tonnes from January to October. World aluminium production fell 0.6 per cent YoY in the first eight months of 2019, WBMS said.

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