Japan Aluminum Association has announced that Japanese monthly output of rolled aluminum products including flat and extruded products decreased by 6% to 159,845 tonnes in December from a year earlier while the shipment decreased by 6.1% to 157,497 tonnes.
Both of the production and the shipment represented YoY minus for 7 straight months. By items both of the production and the shipment showed YoY minus for 7 months in a row for flat aluminum products.
The export dropped by 23.8% to 13,668 tonnes, especially decreasing to Southeast Asia due to Thai flood. On the contrary, production of aluminum extruded products represented YoY plus for 3 months in a row while the shipment showed YoY plus for 5 straight months. The shipment improved by 3.4% for automobile industry and increased by 13.5% for constructions both of which are the main application fields.
As for aluminum foil, the production represented YoY minus for 4 straight months. Inventory adjustment continued among the users such as capacitor and food sectors.
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