SHANGHAI, Jul 18 (SMM) – Social inventories of primary aluminium across eight consumption areas in China, including SHFE warrants, barely changed from a week ago and stood at 1.042 million mt as of Thursday July 18, showed SMM data.
This came after the first weekly increase in about four months in the week ended July 11.
Wuxi, Jiangsu – 320,000 mt
Shanghai – 201,000 mt
Nanhai, Guangdong – 258,000 mt
Gongyi, Henan – 105,000 mt
Hangzhou, Zhejiang – 68,000 mt
Tianjin – 53,000 mt
Linyi, Shandong – 14,000 mt
Chongqing –23,000 mt
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