China’s aluminum extrusion companies carry spare capacity after Spring Festival,while Aluminum plate,strip and foil companies comparatively keep steady

The market has a message to say that China's most aluminum extrusion companies has already stopped production from the beginning of Feb..March can see signs of recovery in domestic aluminum consumption market.

Aluminum extrusion companies’ on-stream time was delayed to the tenth day of New year,former years on the eighth day .Only in the last days of the Feb.,these factories started to go into operation.While owning to not enough orders and workers’ running away after the Spring Festival,most enterprises cannot achieve full-speed production in the last ten days of Feb.Aluminum extrusion companies estimate that the rate of operation is about 33% in Feb.

Different from Aluminum extrusion companies,most Aluminum plate,strip and foil companies maintained normal production during Spring Festival,only some small and medium-sized enterprises cut off overhaul,which contributes to the higher rate of operation than that in Aluminum extrusion companies.According to a survey data,However,it still dropped to 45% this month influenced by the Spring Festival.

The following three aspects have influences on the recovery of China's aluminum consumption in 2013:first,Firms which cut off overhaul during the Spring Festival come back latter than former years.Second,Enterprises need time to recruit new workers,get them trained and make them enter workplaces;Third,Aluminum exports indeed have a high profit ,but not all the end customers in domestic have began to stock up.At least until about March,the recovery signs of China’s aluminum consumption can be seen.