According to an April 2018
Aluminum Association press release, an economic impact study by John Dunham & Associates reports that direct jobs in the U.S. aluminum industry grew by 3.5% between 2013 and today (April 2018) to more than 162,000 workers amid record metal demand but continued global trade challenges.
Read the press release. Significantly, Recycling Industry jobs grew by 9.5% from 2016 to 2018 and the industry saw a 10.4% increase from 2013 to 2018. Preliminary data shows that demand for aluminum in North America in 2017 totaled 27.2 billion pounds – the eighth year of consecutive demand growth and a record since tracking began in the 1960s, according to the release.
This demand is being driven by healthy growth in most of our key market
segments – most notably in the auto sector, where the industry has committed
and invested more than $2.6 billion in domestic manufacturing over the past 5
years.
The chart below illustrates the impact of the aluminum recycling industry.
