NON-COMMUNIST FEBRUARY ALUMINIUM OUTPUT UP, IPAI

  Non-Communist daily average unwrought
  aluminium production in February was 33,900 tonnes, up 400
  tonnes from a downwardly revised 33,500 tonnes in January and
  compared with 32,900 tonnes in February 1986, provisional
  figures from the International Primary Aluminium Institute
  (IPAI) show.
      Total production in February (28 days) was 949,000 tonnes
  compared with a downwardly revised 1.038 mln in January (31
  days) and 920,000 in February 1986.
      The regional breakdown of unwrought aluminium production
  was as follows (in thousands of tonnes) the IPAI said.
                   Feb'87   Jan'87    Feb'86
      Africa           45       50        41
      North America   354      389       353
      Latin America   115      121        98
      East Asia         7        9        16
      South Asia       72       79        72
      Europe          268      293       256
      Oceania          88       97        84
  

