China aluminum billet weekly warehouse withdrawals statistics for October 19, 2026 (10.12-10.18) [SMM data]

[SMM Weekly Aluminum Billet Shipments] According to SMM statistics, 6063 aluminum billet shipments from major domestic consumption sites were in the 50,000-tonne range during October 12-18, well above the September weekly average, as post-holiday pick-up lifted offtake.

On October 12, inside the production workshop of Xinyue Aluminum (Hubei) Co., Ltd. in the Green Recycling Industrial Park, machines roared and production was in full swing. With the project now fully operational, both the southern and northern zones of the company have been put into operation, all production lines are running at full capacity, and annual capacity has reached 300,000 mt. The enterprise is working at full throttle to rush orders and stabilize production. According to Liu Junjun, the company's head, the medium-thickness plates currently being rushed through the production line are the company's core flagship product. Made with an advanced hot-rolling and calendering process, and after multiple procedures such as straightening and stretching, the plate surfaces are flatter and smoother, meeting a wide range of industrial applications.

The "aluminum electrolysis energy-saving and carbon reduction technology based on reducing perfluorocarbon emissions," led by Chalco Zhengzhou Research Institute, has achieved a major breakthrough. This technology addresses at the source the industry-wide challenge of high perfluorocarbon emission intensity in China's large aluminum reduction cells when using domestically produced alumina, reducing the perfluorocarbon equivalent CO2 emission intensity of aluminum electrolysis in China from 1.12 mt/mt aluminum to below 0.26 mt/mt aluminum, a reduction of over 77%, marking a critical step forward in China's green transformation and deep carbon reduction in the aluminum industry. Currently, the technology has been promoted and applied in more than 20 aluminum enterprises nationwide, covering a capacity of over 6 million mt. Actual application data show that the technology delivers significant environmental and economic benefits: average DC power consumption per mt of aluminum has been reduced by more than 47 kWh, with cumulative electricity savings of 1.133 billion kWh since 2022, CO2 emission reductions of 18.71 million mt, and new economic benefits of 1.146 billion yuan.