MANAMA, July 8 -- Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), in line with transforming into the largest smelter in the world with the full ramp-up of Line 6 on 31 July 2019, reported its overall sales' volume and throughput, in double-digits, for the second quarter of 2019 despite trade-tensions and the downward pressure on LME prices.

For the second quarter of 2019, sales' volume went beyond 249,595 metric tonnes (mt) in Q2 2018 to top 311,928 mt, an increase of 25% Year-over-Year while production jumped to 305,727 mt, up by 21% YoY versus 252,081 mt in Q2 2018. Alba closed this quarter with Value-Added (VA) Sales averaging 52% of total shipments versus 60% for the same period in 2018.

For the first half of 2019, production reached 578,434 mt ve...