CURRENT INDUSTRIAL REPORT ALUMINUM INGOT AND MILL PRODUCTS M33D(97)-1 ISSUED MARCH 19, 1997 CONTACT: MARY ELLICKSON 301-457-4736 SPECIAL NOTICE Beginning January 1997 aluminum ingot data will be published in the annual summary. Therefore Table 2 has been dropped from the monthly table format and the former table 5 is now table 2. For Monthly ingot information please contact Nicholas Adams, Aluminum Association, 202-862-5100 Table 1. NET SHIPMENTS AND INVENTORIES OF ALUMINUM INGOT AND MILL PRODUCTS: 1997-1994 (Thousands of pounds) Net shipments of aluminum End of Ingot and period Mill products Mill products Ingot\1 inventories 1997 January . . . . . . . . . . . 1,194,742 1,194,742 (NA) 4,059,393 1996 Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,242,009 14,183,485 5,058,524 4,044,212 January . . . . . . . . . . . 1,467,082 1,064,636 402,446 4,382,048 February . . . . . . . . . . . 1,506,124 1,084,177 421,947 4,480,744 March. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,613,206 1,248,220 364,986 4,432,636 April. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,693,175 1,215,133 478,042 4,451,302 May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,795,193 1,306,289 488,904 4,326,983 June. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,609,370 1,146,247 463,123 4,358,242 July. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,557,832 1,160,883 396,949 4,318,163 August. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,704,851 1,259,127 445,724 4,215,974 September. . . . . . . . . . . 1,553,418 1,177,262 376,156 4,174,484 October . . . . . . . . . . . 1,681,793 1,246,289 435,504 4,060,957 November . . . . . . . . . . . 1,513,574 1,148,835 364,739 4,029,848 December . . . . . . . . . . . 1,546,391 1,126,387 420,004 4,044,212 1995 Total. . . . . . . . . 20,295,037 14,407,244 4,014,958 4,403,357 1994 Total. . . . . . . . . 20,295,037 14,746,132 5,548,905 4,572,784 Note: Use December inventory figures for annual total inventory. 1\Beginning January 1997 aluminum ingot data will be published in the annual summary. Table 2. SHIPMENTS AND RECEIPTS OF ALUMINUM MILL PRODUCTS (Thousands of pounds) No. JANUARY 1997 DECEMBER 1996 Product of Gross Total Net Gross Total Net code Product description comp. shipments receipts shipments 1\ shipments receipts shipments 1\ Aluminum mill products. . . (NA) 1,290,699 95,957 1,194,742 1,228,148 101,761 1,126,387 Sheet, plate, and foil. . . . . (NA) 876,284 54,512 821,772 866,343 62,373 803,970 Sheet and plate. . . . . . . . (NA) 778,627 54,512 724,115 785,836 62,373 723,463 Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . (NA) 746,713 54,512 692,201 759,594 62,373 697,221 33532 22 Nonheat-treatable. . . . . 19 721,708 2\54,512 667,196 738,026 2\62,373 675,653 33532 24 Heat-treatable. . . . . . 11 25,005 2\ 25,005 21,568 2\ 21,568 Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . (NA) 31,914 - 31,914 26,242 - 26,242 33531 15 Nonheat-treatable. . . . . 6 9,462 - 9,462 6,563 - 6,563 33531 13 Heat-treatable. . . . . . 4 22,452 - 22,452 19,679 - 19,679 33533 00 Foil. . . . . . . . . . . . 13 97,657 - 97,657 80,507 - 80,507 Rod, wire, and cable. . . . . . (NA) 101,268 32,790 68,478 85,988 31,770 54,218 Rod and bare wire. . . . . . . (NA) 48,964 32,790 16,174 40,774 31,770 9,004 33552 20 Drawing stock(redraw rod). . 6 36,331 3\32,790 3,541 30,916 3\31,770 (854) 33501 31 Bare wire. . . . . . . . . 13 12,633 3\ 12,633 9,858 3\ 9,858 Cable and insulated wire. . . (NA) 52,304 3\ 52,304 45,214 3\ 45,214 33501 63 ACSR and aluminum cable, bare 5 17,917 3\ 17,917 14,591 3\ 14,591 33570 99 Wire and cable, insulated or covered. . . . . . . . . 12 34,387 3\ 34,387 30,623 3\ 30,623 Rod, bar, pipe, tube and shapes. (NA) 283,422 8,655 274,767 249,123 7,618 241,505 Rod and bar(rolled and extruded) (NA) 37,104 8,655 28,449 32,321 7,618 24,703 33500 20 Alloys other than 2,000 and 7,000 series.\4 . . . . . . 14 4\ 4\ 4\ 4\ 4\ 4\ 33541 18 Alloys in 2,000 and 7,000 series 5 37,104 4\8,655 28,449 32,321 4\7,618 24,703 Pipe and tube (extruded and drawn) (NA) 31,062 4\ 31,062 23,794 4\ 23,794 33542 63 Alloys other than 2,000 and 7,000 series.\4. . . . . . 21 4\ 4\ 4\ 4\ 4\ 4\ 33542 61 Alloys in 2,000 and 7,000 series 7 31,062 4\ 31,062 23,794 4\ 23,794 Extruded shapes. . . . . . . . (NA) 215,256 - 215,256 193,008 - 193,008 33541 25 Alloys other than 2,000 and 7,000 series. . . . . . . . 89 208,627 - 208,627 187,121 - 187,121 33541 28 Alloys in 2,000 and 7,000 series 10 6,629 - 6,629 5,887 - 5,887 All other. . . . . . . . . . . . (NA) 29,725 - 29,725 26,694 - 26,694 Powder and paste. . . . . . . (NA) 10,995 - 10,995 10,894 - 10,894 33991 13 Atomized. . . . . . . . . . 5 5,914 - 5,914 5,069 - 5,069 33991 16 Other flake, powder and paste 9 5,081 - 5,081 5,825 - 5,825 Forgings and impacts. . . . . (NA) 18,730 - 18,730 15,800 - 15,800 34635 21 Forgings. . . . . . . . . . 20 14,019 - 14,019 11,947 - 11,947 34635 41 Impacts. . . . . . . . . . . 8 4,711 - 4,711 3,853 - 3,853 19002 00 Scrap receipts\5 (NA) (NA) 570,870 (NA) (NA) 519,307 (NA) - Represents zero. NA Not available. Note: Total receipts includes domestic and import receipts data. 1\See Table 2, footnote 1. 2\Receipts for "heat-treatable sheet" are combined with "nonheat-treatable sheet" to avoid disclosing data for individual companies. 3\Data for "bare wire" and "cable and insulated wire" are included in "drawing stock" to avoid disclosing data for individual companies. 4\Receipts for "alloys in 2,000 and 7,000 series" are included in "alloys other than 2,000 and 7,000 series" to avoid disclosing data for individual companies. Receipts for "powder and paste" are included in "alloys other than 2,000 and 7,000 series" to avoid disclosing data for individual companies. 5\Data not included in total Aluminum Mill Products receipts or shipments. Table 3A. INVENTORIES OF ALUMINUM INGOT, MILL PRODUCTS, AND SCRAP, BY TYPE OF PRODUCER-1997 (Thousands of pounds) JANUARY Inte- Noninte- Product description Total grated 1\ grated 1\ Smelters 1\ Total. . . . . . . . 4,059,393 2,811,486 1,015,973 231,934 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . 1,419,207 1,032,582 284,857 101,768 Scrap. . . . . . . . . . . 753,177 373,397 249,614 130,166 Other\2 . . . . . . . . . 1,887,009 1,405,507 481,502 2\ 1\The number of companies reporting aluminum inventory data for the current month only are: ingot integrated 13: ingot non-integrated 124: ingot smelters 23. scrap integrated 13; scrap nonintegrated 122; scrap smelters 21; other integrated 11; other nonintegrated 141; and other smelters 5. 2\Data for other smelters are combined with other nonintegrated smelters to avoid disclosing figures for individual companies. Table 3B. INVENTORIES OF ALUMINUM INGOT, MILL PRODUCTS, AND SCRAP, BY TYPE OF PRODUCER (Thousands of pounds) JANUARY FEBRUARY Inte- Noninte- Non- Product description Total grated grated Smelters Total Integrated Integrated Smelters Total. . . . . . . . 4,382,048 3,195,553 992,812 193,683 4,480,744 3,284,133 991,524 205,087 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . 1,727,518 1,324,265 307,855 95,398 1,720,553 1,320,503 304,809 95,241 Scrap. . . . . . . . . . . 618,916 346,824 173,807 98,285 668,340 376,724 181,770 109,846 Other\1. . . . . . . . . . 2,035,614 1,524,464 511,150 \1 2,091,851 1,586,906 504,945 \1 MARCH APRIL Total. . . . . . . . 4,432,636 3,247,525 984,285 200,826 4,451,302 3,247,797 992,017 211,488 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . 1,680,123 1,301,324 284,606 94,193 1,649,702 1,281,998 271,828 95,876 Scrap. . . . . . . . . . . 625,522 341,242 177,647 106,633 652,444 349,748 187,084 115,612 Other\1. . . . . . . . . 2,126,991 1,604,959 522,032 \1 2,149,156 1,616,051 533,105 \1 MAY JUNE Total. . . . . . . . 4,326,983 3,139,283 980,461 207,239 4,358,242 3,167,824 968,497 221,921 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . 1,575,479 1,203,222 276,444 95,813 1,566,415 1,195,248 278,333 92,834 Scrap. . . . . . . . . . . 663,637 364,816 187,395 111,426 696,119 385,088 181,944 129,087 Other\1. . . . . . . . . . 2,087,867 1,571,245 516,622 \1 2,095,708 1,587,488 508,220 \1 JULY AUGUST Total. . . . . . . . 4,318,163 3,114,741 966,870 236,552 4,215,974 3,030,754 960,548 224,672 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . 1,548,972 1,192,500 258,149 98,323 1,469,913 1,128,602 245,724 95,587 Scrap. . . . . . . . . . . 765,971 410,111 217,631 138,229 762,348 414,028 219,235 129,085 Other\1. . . . . . . . . . 2,003,220 1,512,130 491,090 \1 1,983,713 1,488,124 495,589 \1 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER Total. . . . . . . . 4,174,484 3,001,539 959,614 213,331 4,060,957 2,887,360 970,343 203,254 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . 1,450,738 1,117,999 240,298 92,441 1,395,010 1,048,411 256,403 90,196 Scrap. . . . . . . . . . . 719,844 380,852 218,102 120,890 702,620 370,620 218,942 113,058 Other\1. . . . . . . . . . 2,003,902 1,502,688 501,214 \1 1,963,327 1,468,329 494,998 \1 NOVEMBER DECEMBER Total. . . . . . . . 4,029,848 2,831,072 996,027 202,749 4,044,212 2,804,149 1,011,322 228,741 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . 1,401,191 1,049,359 256,289 95,543 1,440,761 1,052,621 281,074 107,066 Scrap. . . . . . . . . . . 701,082 370,646 223,230 107,206 692,309 347,911 222,723 121,675 Other\1 . . . . . . . . . 1,927,575 1,411,067 516,508 \1 1,911,142 1,403,617 507,525 \1 1\Data for other smelters are combined with other nonintegrated smelters to avoid disclosing data for individual companies. Table 4. GROSS SHIPMENTS OF ALUMINUM MILL PRODUCTS, BY TYPE OF PRODUCER (Thousands of pounds) JANUARY 1997 DECEMBER 1996 Non- Non- Product description Total Integrated Integrated Total Integrated Integrated Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,290,699 881,619 409,080 1,228,148 867,406 360,742 Sheet, plate, and foil. . . . . . . . . 876,284 692,566 183,718 866,343 701,766 164,577 Drawing stock, wire, and cable. . . . . 101,268 61,582 39,686 85,988 52,451 33,537 Rod and bare wire. . . . . . . . . . . 48,964 32,261 16,703 40,774 27,740 13,034 Cable and insulated wire. . . . . . . 52,304 29,321 22,983 45,214 24,711 20,503 Rod, bar, pipe, tube, and shapes. . . . 283,422 110,948 172,474 249,123 99,874 149,249 All other\1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,725 16,523 13,202 26,694 13,315 13,379 1\Data for shipments of all other includes powder and paste, and forgings and impacts. Table 5. NET SHIPMENTS OF ALUMINUM MILL PRODUCTS: 1997 (Thousands of Pounds) YEAR Product description JANUARY TO DATE Aluminum mill products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,194,742 1,194,742 Total receipts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,957 95,957 Sheet, plate, and foil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821,772 821,772 Sheet, plate, and foil, total receipts. . . . . . . 54,512 54,512 Sheet and plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724,115 724,115 Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692,201 692,201 Nonheat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667,196 667,196 Heat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,005 25,005 Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,914 31,914 Nonheat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,462 9,462 Heat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,452 22,452 Foil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,657 97,657 Rod, wire, and cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,478 68,478 Rod and bare wire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,174 16,174 Drawing stock (redraw rod). . . . . . . . . . . . 3,541 3,541 Drawing stock (redraw rod), total receipts. . . 32,790 32,790 Bare wire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,633 12,633 Cable and insulated wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,304 52,304 ACSR and aluminum cable, bare. . . . . . . . . . 17,917 17,917 Wire and cable, insulated or covered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,387 34,387 Rod, bar, pipe, tube and shapes. . . . . . . . . . . 274,767 274,767 Rod, bar, pipe, tube and shapes, total receipts. . 8,655 8,655 Rod and bar (rolled and extruded). . . . . . . . . 28,449 28,449 Pipe and tube (extruded and drawn). . . . . . . . . 31,062 31,062 Extruded shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215,256 215,256 Alloys other than 2,000 and 7,000 series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,627 208,627 Alloys in 2,000 and 7,000 series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,629 6,629 All other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,725 29,725 Powder and paste. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,995 10,995 Atomized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,914 5,914 Other flake, powder and paste. . . . . . . . . . 5,081 5,081 Forgings and impacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,730 18,730 Forgings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,019 14,019 Impacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,711 4,711 Scrap receipts\1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570,870 570,870 1\Data not included in Net shipments information. Table 6. NET SHIPMENTS OF ALUMINUM MILL PRODUCTS: 1996 (Thousands of Pounds) YEAR Product description JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER TO DATE Aluminum ingot and mill products . . . . . . . . 1,467,082 1,506,124 1,613,206 1,693,175 1,795,193 1,609,370 1,557,832 1,704,851 1,553,418 1,681,793 1,513,574 1,546,391 19,242,009 Ingot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402,446 421,947 364,986 478,042 488,904 463,123 396,949 445,724 376,156 435,504 364,739 420,004 5,058,524 Extrusion (including imports) 1/. . . . . . . . . 114,465 100,101 100,785 81,010 75,905 32,653 50,028 36,190 47,745 68,756 49,175 70,586 827,399 Total receipts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,062 149,383 187,808 166,739 188,153 207,951 191,744 209,931 212,560 213,222 194,410 199,365 2,271,328 Other ingot (including imports) 1/. . . . . . . . 287,981 321,846 264,201 397,032 412,999 430,470 346,921 409,534 328,411 366,748 315,564 349,418 4,231,125 Total receipts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525,960 470,291 545,168 485,146 501,003 427,897 409,045 419,184 470,094 470,182 456,903 481,788 5,662,661 Aluminum mill products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,064,636 1,084,177 1,248,220 1,215,133 1,306,289 1,146,247 1,160,883 1,259,127 1,177,262 1,246,289 1,148,835 1,126,387 14,183,485 Total receipts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,699 106,864 117,355 119,433 115,272 115,944 107,855 118,329 116,841 123,628 110,435 101,640 1,357,295 Sheet, plate, and foil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735,875 749,169 824,605 838,080 896,574 754,051 797,615 845,164 779,357 847,943 777,487 803,970 9,649,890 Sheet, plate, and foil, total receipts. . . . . 62,646 66,491 75,838 71,041 72,674 74,783 70,117 76,225 72,751 76,519 73,121 62,373 854,579 Sheet and plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648,059 658,207 733,362 739,347 796,815 663,927 707,351 748,366 686,863 744,265 686,411 723,463 8,536,436 Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620,601 633,528 708,557 714,591 770,288 642,859 684,783 723,286 661,336 718,162 659,219 697,221 8,234,431 Nonheat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593,649 608,295 684,653 692,223 743,682 621,865 664,265 701,409 638,474 693,453 636,231 675,653 7,953,852 Heat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,952 25,233 23,904 22,368 26,606 20,994 20,518 21,877 22,862 24,709 22,988 21,568 280,579 Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,458 24,679 24,805 24,756 26,527 21,068 22,568 25,080 25,527 26,103 27,192 26,242 302,005 Nonheat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,737 7,567 6,451 6,014 7,363 5,679 6,402 6,371 6,887 7,497 7,848 6,563 82,379 Heat-treatable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,721 17,112 18,354 18,742 19,164 15,389 16,166 18,709 18,640 18,606 19,344 19,679 219,626 Foil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,816 90,962 91,243 98,733 99,759 90,124 90,264 96,798 92,494 103,678 91,076 80,507 1,113,454 Rod, wire, and cable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,142 60,846 71,355 65,028 67,141 62,637 67,638 68,476 67,713 69,401 62,315 54,218 775,910 Rod and bare wire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,234 10,940 14,909 8,185 12,998 10,523 14,163 13,183 13,784 13,943 16,804 9,004 147,670 Drawing stock (redraw rod). . . . . . . . . . (576) 1,030 4,593 (1,502) 3,601 1,534 5,107 3,277 4,320 3,124 7,641 (854) 31,295 Drawing stock (redraw rod), total receipts. 34,663 34,623 34,975 42,909 37,503 35,511 34,264 37,158 36,955 40,812 30,865 31,770 432,008 Bare wire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,810 9,910 10,316 9,687 9,397 8,989 9,056 9,906 9,464 10,819 9,163 9,858 116,375 Cable and insulated wire . . . . . . . . . . . 49,908 49,906 56,446 56,843 54,143 52,114 53,475 55,293 53,929 55,458 45,511 45,214 628,240 ACSR and aluminum cable, bare. . . . . . . . . 18,717 20,874 24,441 22,949 21,849 18,760 17,650 19,831 18,730 18,360 13,629 14,591 230,381 Wire and cable, insulated or covered. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,191 29,032 32,005 33,894 32,294 33,354 35,825 35,462 35,199 37,098 31,882 30,623 397,859 Rod, bar, pipe, tube and shapes. . . . . . . . . . 240,455 245,986 323,081 282,237 312,104 302,042 266,602 317,131 303,451 298,684 278,941 241,505 3,412,219 Rod, bar, pipe, tube and shapes, total receipts. 6,390 5,750 6,542 5,483 5,095 5,650 3,474 4,946 7,135 6,297 6,449 7,618 70,829 Rod and bar (rolled and extruded). . . . . . . . 30,740 28,272 32,422 30,165 31,385 30,630 27,492 30,488 30,020 29,867 28,961 24,703 355,145 Pipe and tube (extruded and drawn). . . . . . . 27,746 28,663 35,064 31,585 32,570 29,937 27,393 31,145 30,560 33,087 29,380 23,794 360,924 Extruded shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,969 189,051 255,595 220,487 248,149 241,475 211,717 255,498 242,871 235,730 220,600 193,008 2,696,150 Alloys other than 2,000 and 7,000 series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,813 182,672 249,097 214,499 241,987 235,322 206,774 249,891 236,534 229,225 213,728 187,121 2,622,663 Alloys in 2,000 and 7,000 series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,156 6,379 6,498 5,988 6,162 6,153 4,943 5,607 6,337 6,505 6,872 5,887 73,487 All other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,164 28,176 29,179 29,788 30,470 27,517 29,028 28,356 26,741 30,261 30,092 26,694 345,466 Powder and paste. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,841 10,586 11,493 11,414 12,909 11,812 13,731 11,611 12,409 12,952 12,067 10,894 142,719 Atomized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,054 5,625 6,088 5,925 6,298 5,560 6,310 5,020 5,199 5,065 6,143 5,069 68,356 Other flake, powder and paste. . . . . . . . . 4,787 4,961 5,405 5,489 6,611 6,252 7,421 6,591 7,210 7,887 5,924 5,825 74,363 Forgings and impacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,323 17,590 17,686 18,374 17,561 15,705 15,297 16,745 14,332 17,309 18,025 15,800 202,747 Forgings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,675 13,362 12,668 13,484 12,502 10,889 11,008 12,225 9,331 12,408 12,153 11,947 145,652 Impacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,648 4,228 5,018 4,890 5,059 4,816 4,289 4,520 5,001 4,901 5,872 3,853 57,095 Scrap receipts\1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477,070 453,351 526,792 570,913 577,548 478,044 539,264 563,087 545,476 573,743 501,951 519,307 6,326,546 1\Data not included in Net shipments information.