【Ferro-alloys.com】：Aluminium Bahrain, known as Alba, said on Sunday it had initiated a shutdown of three aluminum smelting lines accounting for 19% of its capacity to preserve business continuity amid ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.

The closures are the latest impact on the Middle East aluminum sector, which accounts for around 9% of global supply, from the US-Israeli war on Iran. Fears of shortages propelled London Metal Exchange aluminum to a nearly four-year high of $3,546.50 per metric ton on Thursday.

Alba, which has smelting capacity of 1.62 million tons of aluminum per year, said in a statement it had initiated a “controlled and safe shutdown” of reduction lines 1, 2 and 3.

• [Editor:Alakay]