Germany's Trimet expects full-capacity aluminium output

Trimet Aluminium, Germany's largest aluminium producer, expects to operate at full capacity in the coming year on the back of firm demand from the automobile and other industries, executive board member Thomas Reuther told Reuters. Trimet produced 775,000 tonnes of aluminium and cast aluminium products in its 2016 financial year through June 30, up 5 percent on the previous year.
"We expect to achieve a similar level of output in 2016/17," Reuther said in an interview for the LME Week world metal industry meeting in London. "We are expecting stable demand which will enable us to continue output at full capacity level in our new business year," Reuther said. The company has aluminium smelters at Essen, Hamburg and Voerde in Germany, and at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in France. It has no further acquisition plans after taking over the Voerde smelter in 2014 and two facilities in France in 2013, Reuther said.