Since the end of the 1980s, many automobile manufacturers in Europe, the United States, and Japan have cooperated with aluminum companies to strengthen research on aluminum automobile bodies and have achieved encouraging results. In 1995, the German Audi company first began to mass-produce aluminum bodies.

The start-up rate of leading aluminum processing enterprises fell slightly by 0.7 % this week compared with last week, mainly due to COVID-19 and control of the electricity consumption.