Aluminum Industry Annual Report 2019
2020-02-27 18:12:34 【Print】
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1 Economy and Policy 5
1.1 Bauxite 5
1.1.1 Indonesian bauxite export permit approval stricter in Feb 5
1.1.2 Bauxite mining in Kuantan, Malaysia expires in late Mar 5
1.1.3 Indonesian President Joko successfully re-elected 5
1.1.4 Guinean President requires certain foreign mine companies to build alumina plant in Guinea 5
1.1.5 Ghana's president believes China's mining of the country's bauxite not to harm environment 5
1.1.6 Indonesia will enforce 2022 ban on raw mineral ore exports 5
1.1.7 Jamaica government instructs bauxite miners and alumina refiners to address problem of dust 5
1.1.8 Pahang government to determine date to resume bauxite operation 5
1.1.9 Indonesia considers bauxite royalty rule changes amid output surge 6
1.1.10 Indonesia targets to attract USD13 billion to bauxite process 6
1.1.11 160 million tons of sedimentary bauxite deposits found in Pingguo, Guangxi 6
1.2 Alumina 6
1.2.1 Shandong Aluminum Association established 6
1.2.2 Brazilian court allows Norsk Hydro to resume full output from Alunorte alumina plant 7
1.2.3 Guinean President requires certain foreign mine companies to build alumina plant in Guinea 7
1.2.4 Xiaoyi, Shanxi to cut 50% of alumina capacity during The 2nd Youth Games 7
1.3 Primary aluminum 7
1.3.1 No more steel and aluminum cathode capacity replacement intra-province in Zhengzhou 7
1.3.2 Yunnan government and China Hongqiao establish green aluminum park 7
1.3.3 Wenshan to increase primary aluminum production capacity transfer 7
1.4 Chinese imported aluminum scrap 8
2 Market Highlights 8
2.1 Chinese Market 8
2.1.1 Chinese origin bauxite 8
2.1.2 Aluminum fluoride 8
2.1.3 Alumina 9
2.1.4 Aluminum hydroxide 9
2.1.5 Primary aluminum 9
2.1.6 Aluminum alloy ingot ADC12 10
2.1.7 Aluminum alloy ingot A356 10
2.1.8 Aluminum bar 6063 10
2.1.9 Cast aluminum scrap 11
3.2 International Market 11
3.2.1 Guinean bauxite 11
3.2.2 Australian bauxite 12
3.2.3 Indonesian bauxite 12
3.2.4 Australian alumina 12
3.2.5 Chinese aluminum fluoride export 12
3.2.6 LME aluminum 13
3.2.7 Chinese aluminum alloy ingot ADC12 export 13
3.2.8 Chinese imported Zorba aluminum scrap 13
4 Company News 14
4.1 Tiangui Aluminum starts importing bauxite 14
4.2 Bosai Minerals' bauxite production in Ghana reaches 1.2 million tonnes in 2019 14
4.3 Rizhao Port handles 9 million tonnes of imported bauxite in 2019 14
4.4 Aras Kuasa aims at 1.3 million tonnes of bauxite in 2020 14
4.5 CTC Mining aims at 2.1 million tonnes of bauxite in 2020 14
4.6 SOGUIPAMI aims at 2 million tonnes of bauxite export in 2020 14
4.7 Chalco ships first bauxite from Guinean Boffa mine to China 15
4.8 Henan International Mining's Guinean bauxite production to reach 7 million tonnes in 2019 15
4.9 Yuntianhua Fluoride Chemical to produce 20,000t of aluminum fluoride in 2019 15
4.10 Metro Mining to produce 3.5 million tonnes of bauxite in 2019 15
4.11 Hetai Technology produces 30,000t of aluminum fluoride in 2019 15
4.12 Antam produces about 2 million tonnes of bauxite in 2019 15
4.13 CEMENDUS' bauxite production reaches 2.7MT in 2019 15
4.14 ICF aims at 42,000t of aluminum fluoride in 2019 15
4.15 Nanshan Aluminum to launch 1st alumina project in Indonesia in late 2020 15
4.16 Nanchuan Shuijiang Alumina to release output 16
4.17 Huayu Aluminum & Electricity shuts down the entire production 16
4.18 Tongshun Aluminum completes halting the whole production 16
4.19 Jiaokou Feimei Aluminum to suspend entire alumina operation 16
4.20 Huasheng Aluminum permanently halts primary aluminum production 16
4.21 Henan Shenhuo Aluminum suspends primary aluminum production 16
4.22 Chalco Zhongzhou Aluminum completes technical reformation on all alumina production lines 16
4.23 China Hongqiao Group revises down 2019 aluminum output guidance 16
4.24 Denggao New Material to accomplish launching second stage aluminum production 17
4.25 Chalco and other two parties sign letter of intent for cooperation on 400mtpy alumina project 17
4.26 China Hongqiao to move about 1/3 of its aluminum capacity to Yunnan 17
4.27 Guangyuan Linfeng holds aluminum commissioning ceremony 17
4.28 Huayu Aluminum & Electricity shuts down aluminum rod production lines 17
4.29 Dalian Wantai finishes debugging secondary aluminum alloy production line 17
4.30 Chongqing Sigma builds new secondary aluminum production line 18
4.31 Guangtai Metal to complete secondary aluminum alloy production line construction 18
4.32 Yijiang Aluminum starts another aluminum bar production line 18
4.33 Xinjiang East Hope raises aluminum liquid subsidy for downstream aluminum bar plants 18
4.34 Yadelin Non-Ferrous Metal to finish new secondary aluminum alloy production line construction 18
4.35 Qingtongxia Aluminum to complete upgrade of aluminum bar production line 18
5 Producers Statistics 18
5.1 Aluminum fluoride 18
5.1.1 China's aluminum fluoride output down by 11.03% YOY in 2019 18
5.1.2 Aluminum fluoride output in Henan down by 20.3% YOY in 2019 19
5.1.3 Aluminum fluoride output in Shandong up by 12.5% YOY in 2019 19
5.1.4 Aluminum fluoride output in Shandong up by 12.5% YOY in 2019 19
5.1.5 Aluminum fluoride output in Hunan down by 17.9% YOY in 2019 19
5.2 Alumina 20
5.2.1 China's alumina output down by 2.04% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.2 Alumina output in Shandong down by 0.26% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.3 Alumina output in Shanxi down by 9.27% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.4 Alumina output in Henan down by 9.05% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.5 Alumina output in Guangxi down by 2.67% YOY in 2019 21
5.2.6 Alumina output in Guizhou down by 1.22% YOY in 2019 21
5.3 Primary aluminum 21
5.3.1 China's primary aluminum output down by 0.81% YOY in 2019 21
5.3.2 Primary aluminum output in Shandong down by 5.73% YOY in 2019 21
5.3.3 Primary aluminum output in Inner Mongolia up by 13.56% YOY in 2019 22
5.3.4 Primary aluminum output in Xinjiang down by 2.38% YOY in 2019 22
5.3.5 Primary aluminum output in Yunnan up by 19.81% YOY in 2019 22
5.4 Major Chinese secondary aluminum alloy producers' output up by 1.94% YOY in 2019 22
5.5 Major Chinese aluminum bar producers' output in 2019 23
6 Consumers Statistics 23
6.1 Chinese origin bauxite 23
6.1.1 China's consumption of domestic bauxite down by 12.5% YOY in 2019 23
6.1.2 Domestic bauxite consumption in Shanxi down by 15.5% YOY in 2019 24
6.1.3 Domestic bauxite consumption in Henan down by 25.7% YOY in 2019 24
6.1.4 Domestic bauxite consumption in Guangxi unchanged YOY in 2019 24
6.1.5 Domestic bauxite consumption in Guizhou up by 4.5% YOY in 2019 24
6.2 Imported bauxite 24
6.2.1 China's consumption of imported bauxite up by 27.55% YOY in 2019 24
6.2.2 Imported bauxite consumption in Shandong up by 8.4% YOY in 2019 25
6.2.3 Imported bauxite consumption in Henan climbs by 325% YOY in 2019 25
6.2.4 Imported bauxite consumption in Shanxi reaches 6 million tons in 2019 25
7. Customs Statistics 25
7.1 Bauxite imports 25
7.1.1 China's imports of bauxite up by 21.68% YOY in 2019 25
7.1.2 China's imported bauxite from Guinea up by 16.08% YOY in 2019 26
7.1.3 China's imported bauxite from Australia up by 21.07% YOY in 2019 26
7.1.4 China's imported bauxite from Indonesia soar by 91.34% YOY in 2019 26
7.2 Aluminum fluoride exports 26
7.2.1 China's exports of aluminum fluoride down by 14.25% YOY in 2019 26
7.2.2 China's exports of aluminum fluoride to India up by 36.21% in 2019 27
7.2.3 China's exports of aluminum fluoride to Australia up by 45.68% in 2019 27
7.2.4 China's exports of aluminum fluoride to Russia sharply down by 73.8% in 2019 27
7.3 Alumina imports 27
7.3.1 China's alumina imports up by 217.05% YOY in 2019 27
7.3.2 China's alumina imports from Australia up by 308.05% YOY in 2019 28
7.3.3 China's alumina imports from India up by 361.47% YOY in 2019 28
7.3.4 China's alumina imports from Vietnam up by 98.11% YOY in 2019 28
7.3.5 China's alumina imports from Indonesia up by 312.81% YOY in 2019 28
7.4 China's aluminum alloy ingot exports down by 3.27% YOY in 2019 28
7.5 China's aluminum scrap imports down by 10.89% YOY in 2019 29
7.6 Japan's imports of aluminum alloy down by 8.82% YOY in 2019 30
8. Relevant Industry News 30
8.1 Fluorspar 30
8.2 Liquid caustic soda 30
9 Market Outlook for 2019 31
9.1 Aluminum fluoride 31
9.2 Bauxite 31
9.2.1 Chinese origin bauxite 31
9.2.2 Imported bauxite 31
9.3 Alumina 31
9.4 Primary aluminum 31
9.5 Aluminum alloy ingot ADC12 31
9.6 Chinese cast aluminum scrap 31
9.7 Chinese aluminum bar 6063 31
1.1 Bauxite 5
1.1.1 Indonesian bauxite export permit approval stricter in Feb 5
1.1.2 Bauxite mining in Kuantan, Malaysia expires in late Mar 5
1.1.3 Indonesian President Joko successfully re-elected 5
1.1.4 Guinean President requires certain foreign mine companies to build alumina plant in Guinea 5
1.1.5 Ghana's president believes China's mining of the country's bauxite not to harm environment 5
1.1.6 Indonesia will enforce 2022 ban on raw mineral ore exports 5
1.1.7 Jamaica government instructs bauxite miners and alumina refiners to address problem of dust 5
1.1.8 Pahang government to determine date to resume bauxite operation 5
1.1.9 Indonesia considers bauxite royalty rule changes amid output surge 6
1.1.10 Indonesia targets to attract USD13 billion to bauxite process 6
1.1.11 160 million tons of sedimentary bauxite deposits found in Pingguo, Guangxi 6
1.2 Alumina 6
1.2.1 Shandong Aluminum Association established 6
1.2.2 Brazilian court allows Norsk Hydro to resume full output from Alunorte alumina plant 7
1.2.3 Guinean President requires certain foreign mine companies to build alumina plant in Guinea 7
1.2.4 Xiaoyi, Shanxi to cut 50% of alumina capacity during The 2nd Youth Games 7
1.3 Primary aluminum 7
1.3.1 No more steel and aluminum cathode capacity replacement intra-province in Zhengzhou 7
1.3.2 Yunnan government and China Hongqiao establish green aluminum park 7
1.3.3 Wenshan to increase primary aluminum production capacity transfer 7
1.4 Chinese imported aluminum scrap 8
2 Market Highlights 8
2.1 Chinese Market 8
2.1.1 Chinese origin bauxite 8
2.1.2 Aluminum fluoride 8
2.1.3 Alumina 9
2.1.4 Aluminum hydroxide 9
2.1.5 Primary aluminum 9
2.1.6 Aluminum alloy ingot ADC12 10
2.1.7 Aluminum alloy ingot A356 10
2.1.8 Aluminum bar 6063 10
2.1.9 Cast aluminum scrap 11
3.2 International Market 11
3.2.1 Guinean bauxite 11
3.2.2 Australian bauxite 12
3.2.3 Indonesian bauxite 12
3.2.4 Australian alumina 12
3.2.5 Chinese aluminum fluoride export 12
3.2.6 LME aluminum 13
3.2.7 Chinese aluminum alloy ingot ADC12 export 13
3.2.8 Chinese imported Zorba aluminum scrap 13
4 Company News 14
4.1 Tiangui Aluminum starts importing bauxite 14
4.2 Bosai Minerals' bauxite production in Ghana reaches 1.2 million tonnes in 2019 14
4.3 Rizhao Port handles 9 million tonnes of imported bauxite in 2019 14
4.4 Aras Kuasa aims at 1.3 million tonnes of bauxite in 2020 14
4.5 CTC Mining aims at 2.1 million tonnes of bauxite in 2020 14
4.6 SOGUIPAMI aims at 2 million tonnes of bauxite export in 2020 14
4.7 Chalco ships first bauxite from Guinean Boffa mine to China 15
4.8 Henan International Mining's Guinean bauxite production to reach 7 million tonnes in 2019 15
4.9 Yuntianhua Fluoride Chemical to produce 20,000t of aluminum fluoride in 2019 15
4.10 Metro Mining to produce 3.5 million tonnes of bauxite in 2019 15
4.11 Hetai Technology produces 30,000t of aluminum fluoride in 2019 15
4.12 Antam produces about 2 million tonnes of bauxite in 2019 15
4.13 CEMENDUS' bauxite production reaches 2.7MT in 2019 15
4.14 ICF aims at 42,000t of aluminum fluoride in 2019 15
4.15 Nanshan Aluminum to launch 1st alumina project in Indonesia in late 2020 15
4.16 Nanchuan Shuijiang Alumina to release output 16
4.17 Huayu Aluminum & Electricity shuts down the entire production 16
4.18 Tongshun Aluminum completes halting the whole production 16
4.19 Jiaokou Feimei Aluminum to suspend entire alumina operation 16
4.20 Huasheng Aluminum permanently halts primary aluminum production 16
4.21 Henan Shenhuo Aluminum suspends primary aluminum production 16
4.22 Chalco Zhongzhou Aluminum completes technical reformation on all alumina production lines 16
4.23 China Hongqiao Group revises down 2019 aluminum output guidance 16
4.24 Denggao New Material to accomplish launching second stage aluminum production 17
4.25 Chalco and other two parties sign letter of intent for cooperation on 400mtpy alumina project 17
4.26 China Hongqiao to move about 1/3 of its aluminum capacity to Yunnan 17
4.27 Guangyuan Linfeng holds aluminum commissioning ceremony 17
4.28 Huayu Aluminum & Electricity shuts down aluminum rod production lines 17
4.29 Dalian Wantai finishes debugging secondary aluminum alloy production line 17
4.30 Chongqing Sigma builds new secondary aluminum production line 18
4.31 Guangtai Metal to complete secondary aluminum alloy production line construction 18
4.32 Yijiang Aluminum starts another aluminum bar production line 18
4.33 Xinjiang East Hope raises aluminum liquid subsidy for downstream aluminum bar plants 18
4.34 Yadelin Non-Ferrous Metal to finish new secondary aluminum alloy production line construction 18
4.35 Qingtongxia Aluminum to complete upgrade of aluminum bar production line 18
5 Producers Statistics 18
5.1 Aluminum fluoride 18
5.1.1 China's aluminum fluoride output down by 11.03% YOY in 2019 18
5.1.2 Aluminum fluoride output in Henan down by 20.3% YOY in 2019 19
5.1.3 Aluminum fluoride output in Shandong up by 12.5% YOY in 2019 19
5.1.4 Aluminum fluoride output in Shandong up by 12.5% YOY in 2019 19
5.1.5 Aluminum fluoride output in Hunan down by 17.9% YOY in 2019 19
5.2 Alumina 20
5.2.1 China's alumina output down by 2.04% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.2 Alumina output in Shandong down by 0.26% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.3 Alumina output in Shanxi down by 9.27% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.4 Alumina output in Henan down by 9.05% YOY in 2019 20
5.2.5 Alumina output in Guangxi down by 2.67% YOY in 2019 21
5.2.6 Alumina output in Guizhou down by 1.22% YOY in 2019 21
5.3 Primary aluminum 21
5.3.1 China's primary aluminum output down by 0.81% YOY in 2019 21
5.3.2 Primary aluminum output in Shandong down by 5.73% YOY in 2019 21
5.3.3 Primary aluminum output in Inner Mongolia up by 13.56% YOY in 2019 22
5.3.4 Primary aluminum output in Xinjiang down by 2.38% YOY in 2019 22
5.3.5 Primary aluminum output in Yunnan up by 19.81% YOY in 2019 22
5.4 Major Chinese secondary aluminum alloy producers' output up by 1.94% YOY in 2019 22
5.5 Major Chinese aluminum bar producers' output in 2019 23
6 Consumers Statistics 23
6.1 Chinese origin bauxite 23
6.1.1 China's consumption of domestic bauxite down by 12.5% YOY in 2019 23
6.1.2 Domestic bauxite consumption in Shanxi down by 15.5% YOY in 2019 24
6.1.3 Domestic bauxite consumption in Henan down by 25.7% YOY in 2019 24
6.1.4 Domestic bauxite consumption in Guangxi unchanged YOY in 2019 24
6.1.5 Domestic bauxite consumption in Guizhou up by 4.5% YOY in 2019 24
6.2 Imported bauxite 24
6.2.1 China's consumption of imported bauxite up by 27.55% YOY in 2019 24
6.2.2 Imported bauxite consumption in Shandong up by 8.4% YOY in 2019 25
6.2.3 Imported bauxite consumption in Henan climbs by 325% YOY in 2019 25
6.2.4 Imported bauxite consumption in Shanxi reaches 6 million tons in 2019 25
7. Customs Statistics 25
7.1 Bauxite imports 25
7.1.1 China's imports of bauxite up by 21.68% YOY in 2019 25
7.1.2 China's imported bauxite from Guinea up by 16.08% YOY in 2019 26
7.1.3 China's imported bauxite from Australia up by 21.07% YOY in 2019 26
7.1.4 China's imported bauxite from Indonesia soar by 91.34% YOY in 2019 26
7.2 Aluminum fluoride exports 26
7.2.1 China's exports of aluminum fluoride down by 14.25% YOY in 2019 26
7.2.2 China's exports of aluminum fluoride to India up by 36.21% in 2019 27
7.2.3 China's exports of aluminum fluoride to Australia up by 45.68% in 2019 27
7.2.4 China's exports of aluminum fluoride to Russia sharply down by 73.8% in 2019 27
7.3 Alumina imports 27
7.3.1 China's alumina imports up by 217.05% YOY in 2019 27
7.3.2 China's alumina imports from Australia up by 308.05% YOY in 2019 28
7.3.3 China's alumina imports from India up by 361.47% YOY in 2019 28
7.3.4 China's alumina imports from Vietnam up by 98.11% YOY in 2019 28
7.3.5 China's alumina imports from Indonesia up by 312.81% YOY in 2019 28
7.4 China's aluminum alloy ingot exports down by 3.27% YOY in 2019 28
7.5 China's aluminum scrap imports down by 10.89% YOY in 2019 29
7.6 Japan's imports of aluminum alloy down by 8.82% YOY in 2019 30
8. Relevant Industry News 30
8.1 Fluorspar 30
8.2 Liquid caustic soda 30
9 Market Outlook for 2019 31
9.1 Aluminum fluoride 31
9.2 Bauxite 31
9.2.1 Chinese origin bauxite 31
9.2.2 Imported bauxite 31
9.3 Alumina 31
9.4 Primary aluminum 31
9.5 Aluminum alloy ingot ADC12 31
9.6 Chinese cast aluminum scrap 31
9.7 Chinese aluminum bar 6063 31
