On April 8th, the latest industry data showed that China’s aluminum plate and strip industry will achieve steady development by 2025, with both production and consumption maintaining a year-on-year growth trend. It occupies a core position in the global market, demonstrating strong industry resilience and development potential, and becoming an important engine for the development of the global aluminum plate and strip industry.
In terms of production, China’s aluminum plate and strip production will reach 15.77 million tons by 2025, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. This production scale accounts for 52.4% of the global total production, which means that China has occupied half of the world’s aluminum plate and strip production, continuing its position as the world’s largest aluminum plate and strip producer since 2008. From the perspective of product structure, the production of different categories of aluminum plates and strips has achieved positive growth, among which the production of aluminum alloy medium and thick plates is 620000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.3%. The production of cold-rolled strip was 15.15 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%. As a core category, cold-rolled strip has become a key driving force for overall production growth with its high growth rate, reflecting the continuous optimization of domestic aluminum plate and strip processing technology and the continuous improvement of product structure.
The demand side also showed strong performance. As the world’s largest consumer of aluminum sheet and strip, China’s industry demand will continue to release in 2025, with an apparent consumption of 12.916 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 11.3%, accounting for 42.9% of the global total consumption, and maintaining a leading consumption scale and global proportion. From a long-term growth trend perspective, the compound annual growth rate of apparent consumption of aluminum sheet and strip in China from 2020 to 2025 is 6.3%, which is 3.8 percentage points higher than the global average demand growth rate during the same period. This highlights the strong demand support for aluminum sheet and strip in the domestic market and also reflects China’s core leading role in the global aluminum sheet and strip consumption market.
In the downstream application field, Chinese aluminum sheet and strip have a wide range of application scenarios, with products mainly flowing into core areas such as aluminum foil production, packaging containers, durable consumption, and transportation. Among them, the demand for aluminum sheet and strip in the aluminum foil production field remains stable, while the packaging container field benefits from the upgrading demand of the consumer goods industry and continues to grow. The durable consumption and transportation fields rely on industrial upgrading and new energy development to become new driving forces for demand growth, especially in the transportation field. With the acceleration of automobile electrification and lightweighting trends, the penetration rate of aluminum sheet in body structural components, battery trays and other parts continues to increase, further expanding the demand space for aluminum sheet and strip.
Industry insiders say that the dual growth of production and consumption in China’s aluminum plate and strip industry in 2025 cannot be achieved without the multiple supports of stable domestic economic recovery, downstream industry demand, and industry technological upgrading. Although the development speed of the industry has slowed down in recent years, it still maintains a growth rate higher than the global average. It is expected that in the future, with the promotion of high-end, green, and intelligent transformation, as well as the continuous release of demand in emerging downstream fields, the Chinese aluminum plate and strip industry will continue to maintain a steady development trend and consolidate its core position in the global market.
Post time: Apr-10-2026