COMMENT :
Destined to a plunge owing to oversupply, aluminium price peaks and troughs in 2007
The correlation between aluminium prices and the domestic aluminium industry is quite significant. Primary aluminium players in India are fully integrated and their profit growth is linked directly to global aluminium prices. In similar line with global players, indian manufacturers have also lined up significant investment plans.
COMPANY PROFILE
Nalco focuses on local value enhancement, seeks offshore footprint
Riding on the crest of a boom in metal market, the public sector blue chip National Aluminium Company, the country's largest integrated manufacturer and exporter of alumina and aluminium, has clocked 52.39% per cent jump in net profit to Rs2,380.70 crore in 2006-07 from Rs1,562.20 crore in the previous year.
IN FOCUS
India’s bauxite ore outturn set to zoom 30% by 2010
India, a natural cornucopia of industrial minerals that has played functional in catapulting the nation as the next ‘Big Thing’ in the world primary metal sector, is going to endow the global aluminium industry with yet another significant accession. The production of bauxite- a key ingredient in aluminium manufacturing, which finds a recoverable reserve of 2.3 billion tonnes in the country with production estimating about 12.3 million tonnes (mt) every year, is expected to increase 30% in coming three years taking the output capacity to a substantial 16 Mtpy (million tonne per year) by 2010.
NEWS CORNER
- Siemens to provide new aluminium hot finishing mill to China
- Chile to host the new copper projects in 2006-2015
- Zinc to perform better next year
METAL NEWS
Processes with contact primary copper production
Emissions of sulphur dioxide from non-ferrous metal production, particularly copper production contribute less than 10% to the total global emissions of this pollutant. However, copper smelting can be the most important source of sulphur dioxide emissions in certain regions, such as the Kola Peninsula, the Urals, the Norilsk area, and the Fergana region in Russia, Lower Silesia in Poland, and the Gijon region in Spain.
PRODUCT PROFILE
Voracious demand and enormous consumption coupled with supply boom
Cognex Corporation with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts produces surface inspection systems used in the production of materials manufactured in a continuous fashion, such as metal or paper. They are a leader in state-of-the-art equipment for detection, identification, and visualization of defects in aluminium sheet processing with a product called SmartView Metals. The company has installed over 750 systems, which includes numerous nonferrous inspection lines at aluminium hot mills, cold mills,
and foil mills, and on leveling lines and coating lines all over the world.
SPECIAL COVERAGE
From Power to Nano-particle - Aluminium traces a versatile application trajectory
A world without aluminium has become unimaginable. In 2007, aluminium industry has performed brilliantly with ever-rising demand and enormous consumption. China becoming the key driver, worldwide huge investment in the sector resulted in a surge in production which can even outstrip the demand. There were two major acquisitions in the industry namely Hindalco-Novelis and Rio Tinto-Alcan in the world aluminium arena. Aluminium glittered with best of its sheen as its demand continued to escalate giving out lucrative signals for the investment punters… writes Shaonli Chatterjee.
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
Ausmelt Technology – Developments in Copper Converting
Ausmelt Technology evolved from the original Top Submerged Lancing (TSL) technology in-vented and developed in Australia in the early 1970’s by Dr. John Floyd and his team at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The
first application of the technology was in reducing tin slag and was known as “Sirosmelt”. Dr. Floyd, seeing the potential for the technology, formed Ausmelt in 1981 to commercialize the technology and expand its range of use from tin to many other processes.
CASE STUDY
Modeling More Sustainable Aluminium: Case Study
Statistics on the resources flows required to produce primary and recycled aluminium are incomplete on a global basis. In addition, there has not been a consensus or quantitative estimate of future resource flows related to aluminium production or the potential availability of less resource intense end-of-life aluminium (recycled) metal to meet ever increasing consumer and developing nation needs.
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