US Market:  Secondary aluminum producers learn to diversify

 

Secondaries are showing more flexibility. Just as primary smelters over many years of history have expanded from P1020 sows to a variety of value added products, the same is starting to emerge in the secondary sector. No longer are secondaries relying on just one product. We now see this development increasing as scrap melters realize they can’t place all their assets in one consumer industry and need to be flexible based on scrap availability and economic factors.

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