SHANGHAI, May 28 (SMM) – Social inventories of primary aluminium ingots in China continued their steep fall this week, showed the latest SMM data.
Social inventories of primary aluminium ingots across eight consumption areas in China, including SHFE warrants, decreased 86,000 mt in the week ended May 28 to 893,000 mt, after a decline of 79,000 mt in the previous week.



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