date:May 25, 2012
Overall European shipments of aluminium fell almost 5% year-on-year to 204,00t during Q1, according to figures published by the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA).
However, demand for thinner gauges mostly used for flexible packaging and household foil suffered more registering a decline of 6%.
Shipments of thicker foil typically for semi-rigid container and technical applications slumped by almost 10%.
But the one piece of good news was that exports from Europe jumped by nearly 9%