Singapore 15/07/2016 - China’s production of electrolytic aluminium fell 2.4 percent year-on-year to 2.69 million tonnes in June, according to data published by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday.
Compared to May, the output was relatively flat, rising just 0.4 percent.
In May, production was flat year-on-year but rose 4.3 percent month-on-month.
Chinese aluminium output totalled 15.32 million tonnes in the first half of this year, down 1.9 percent from the same period last year.
Meanwhile China’s output of ten major nonferrous metals, including aluminium, fell 1.2 percent year-on-year to 4.43 million tonnes in June, reversing a 1-percent increase in May.
Production in June, however, was 1.6 percent higher than that in May.
This took year-to-June output to 25.12 million tonnes, up 0.1 percent from the first half of last year.
Additionally, overall industrial production in the country’s nonferrous metal smelting and fabricating industry increased 9.1 percent year-on-year in June and ten percent year-on-year in the first six months of the year. These improve from growths of 6-percent and 5.9-percent in May and January-May respectively.