Mumbai (Commodities Control) – China's aluminium production in April rose 12.4% from March to a record monthly volume, official data showed on Monday, after a relaxation of output curbs in Inner Mongolia boosted supply.
Primary aluminium output in China, by far the world's biggest producer of the metal, was 3.35 million tonnes in April, the National Bureau of Statistics said. That was up from 3.276 million tonnes in March and 12.9% higher than production in April 2020.
In the first four months of the year, China produced 13.02 million tonnes, a rise of 9.6 percent from the same period a year earlier, the data showed.
April's daily output was 111,667 tonnes, a record high, versus 105,700 daily tonnes in March, which has one more day.
Production of ten nonferrous metals – including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc and nickel – rose 11.6 percent to 5.48 million tonnes from a year earlier. Year-to-date output of the ten metals was up 11.5 percent at 21.43 million tonnes.