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January 2020 | Aluminium Weekly Market Tracker


Demand is very depressed: European Market Analysis - Extrusions


Overall these numbers point to near flat German demand for extrusions during 2019, despite a clear downturn in automotive production, which is a major consumer of extrusions.

German extrusion sector slows, impacting other countries

With German demand for aluminium extrusions accounting for close to one third of the European region’s needs, any slow down here has a major impact on European demand for extrusions as a whole. We estimate that Germany produced 595kt of aluminium extrusions in 2019, little changed from the 579kt produced in 2018. In 2018, extrusion imports totalled 609kt, and exports 351kt, giving apparent demand of 823kt. Into 2019, demand struggled, with import demand the first to be hit falling...

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