Alba reports 25% sales growth in Q2 2019

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), on course to be transformed into the largest smelter in the world with the full ramp-up of Line 6 on 31 July 2019, stretches its overall sales’ volume and throughput, in double-digits, for the second quarter of 2019 despite trade-tensions and the downward pressure on LME prices.  For the second quarter of 2019, sales’ volume went beyond 249,595 metric tonnes (mt) in Q2 2018 to top 311,928 mt, an increase of 25% Year-over-Year while production jumped to 305,727 mt, up by 21% YoY versus 252,081 mt in Q2 2018. Alba closed this quarter with Value-Added (VA)…