Winter Park, Florida 26/01/2016 - Shipments of aluminum extruded products (extruded shapes, pipe & tube, and rod & bar) by US and Canadian producers totalled 5.130 billion pounds (2.33 million tonnes) in 2015, up 4.8 percent year-over-year, the Aluminum Association reported.
In December, extrusion shipments were 355.3 million pounds (161,000 tonnes), a rise of 4.7 percent over the December 2014 total but down 10.3 percent compared to November, the trade group said.