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SMELTERS BUILT AND RE-OPENED ADD TO HIGH U.S. AND EUROPEAN PRODUCTION THROUGH 1988
GRAHAM FIELD reports on aluminium's growth and its prospects in the canmaking and canning industries in major producer- and user-countries Aluminium production enjoyed a strong year throughout the Western world last year. Among the big US producers, Reynolds reported record shipments in 1988 and US shipments as a whole were up 3.5 per cent to 16.9 billion lb. The US industry functioned at around 98 per cent capacity and in some cases above official capacity ceilings:
Reynolds revised its own capacity estimate up by 34,000t to 787,000t in February this year. Montreal-based ...