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June 2019 | Aluminium Weekly Market Tracker


Cyber-attack dents Hydro’s Q1 earnings: European Market Analysis - Extrusions


As discussed in recent reports, a slowdown in passenger car production, which is still being hampered by the transition to the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP), is at the heart of softer growth in European output.

German extrusions output growth stagnates

In 2018, German produced 579kt of aluminium extrusions, of which around 20% was exported to other European countries. During Q1, Germany produced 149kt of extrusions, which combined with the country’s FRP output for the period, lead to an overall increase of just 0.3%. Given this stagnation in domestic extrusion output, it is clear to see why the 48% increase in Chinese origin extrusions imports (albeit to total 7.3kt) reported during the same...

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