Alumina Medium Term--Capacity and Industry Structure

摘要

Table 6 shows that at the end of 2007 world alumina capacity was 91.7 million tonnes in 80 plants, of which 7.1 million tonnes was for non-metallurgical alumina. Table 7 lists all committed changes to alumina capacity. The projects will add 26.3 million tonnes (28 percent) to alumina capacity, of which 10.4m tonnes is in 2008. This comes on top of an increase of 8m tonnes in 2007and is a very large planned increase by normal standards. Since the last report we now consider the new alumina plant of Hydro Aluminium and Vale (CVRD) in Brazil to be a committed project, since this is expected to receive final board approval shortly, and an expansion at Worsley has also been included.