Speaking during a CEO dialogue session at an Antaike aluminium conference in Qingdao on Thursday November 14, Shang Fushan said: “As we all know, after the aluminium supply reform was launched several years ago, China’s aluminum production celling would be 45,000,000 tonnes [per year]. This won’t change. I think it is time for us to think about alumina production now based on [the alumina] surplus.”
Chinese aluminium output from January to October 2019 was 29.95 million tonnes, down 1.6% year on year, according to data presented at the conference. Despite the closure of Xinfa Group’s Jiaokou alumina refinery in May which removed...