China encourages increased use of ‘green’ aluminium foil in food packaging

China’s aluminium industry can expect to see growing demand from the downstream packaging sector, Fastmarkets understands, after the government proposed to speed up the use of aluminium foil in food packaging.

Aluminium foil gets a specific mention in China's ‘Work Plan for Steady Growth of [the] Non-ferrous Metals Industry’, which was published in late August, and market participants told Fastmarkets that...