The Japan Aluminium Society reports Japanese shipments of aluminium mill products fell by 3% year-on-year to 1.01 Mt in the first half of 2018 (Table 1). This represented the first fall in three years and was primarily due to lower demand for series 3000 and 5000 alloys in cans. Demand for 5000 series alloys (5% Mg) in end-tab materials dropped by 17% to 48,000t.
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