Winter Park, Florida 26/01/2016 - Shipments of primary aluminum by North American (US and Canada) producers totalled 1.151 million tonnes in the fourth quarter, up 1.2 percent year-over-year, the Aluminum Association reported.
Compared to the previous quarter, shipments rose 4.9 percent over the third quarter 2015 total of 1.097 million tonnes, the trade said.
Preliminary shipments for 2015 totalled 4.489 million tonnes, 1.8 percent from the 2014 total of 4.571.6 million tonnes, it concluded.