SMM February 6 News:
Due to the pressure on liquid aluminum conversion during the Chinese New Year, some aluminum plants in certain regions offered concessions to aluminum billet manufacturers, enabling them to maintain aluminum billet production during the holiday to alleviate the pressure of liquid aluminum write-offs. However, this led to a rapid accumulation of aluminum billets, with post-holiday aluminum billet inventory on the first day already approaching last year's post-holiday peak. It is expected that aluminum billet inventory at high levels will operate between 300,000-350,000 mt.
In terms of processing fees, market trading sentiment remained weak. On one hand, aluminum billets continued to face resistance; on the other hand, domestic profile enterprises were still in the process of resuming operations, resulting in weak purchasing activity. Although suppliers showed a sentiment to stand firm on quotes, the market largely exhibited a trend of price suppression in transactions. Processing fees saw a slight rebound overall, but trading volume remained low.


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