Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) announced that it's cutting the world's largest single-site aluminium smelter's output by 19% amid the Middle East war. The scaleback, which will reduce Alba's production by 1.62 million MT/year, has been undertaken to "preserve business continuity amid...Strait of Hormuz's [closure]", Alba said. This is likely to make electronic gadgets costlier as they use aluminium.