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ing and packaging applications. The
product quality and its compliance
with packaging standards for food,
drugs, and pharmaceuticals were
certified by the Russian certification
centre Rosstandart, German Isega
and by other international organisations.
Expansion of ultra thin foil production
became possible through
the comprehensive modernisation
programme completed at Armenal
with over USD70m invested. From
January to August 2009 the mill produced
about 14,000 tonnes of foil, up
85% from the same period in 2008.
The product is targeted for customers
in the United States, Europe and the
Middle East.
asia
Taiwan’s top aluminium
products mill to raise output
Taiwan’s biggest flat­rolled aluminium
products mill, C. S. Aluminium,
plans to raise production in 2010
due to increased orders mainly from
Asia. The company hopes to increase
its output in 2010 above this year’s
120,000 tonnes. The mill was operating
nearly at full capacity again after
falling to 40% in the first quarter and
70% in the second quarter as a result
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in Düsseldorf, Germany.
of the economic crunch. C. S. Aluminium,
also the biggest user of the
primary metal in Taiwan, is capable
of making 180,000 tpy of flat­rolled
products such as sheet, coil and foil
for food packaging, transportation
and the machinery sector. Some
40% of the company’s products are
exported. Orders from Asia had increased
but those from the U. S. and
Europe remained low. The bulk of
those orders were under spot contracts
with shorter delivery requirements.
C. S. Aluminium, a subsidiary of
Taiwan’s China Steel, expects global
aluminium supply and demand to be
in balance in 2010, or there might be
a marginal surplus if Chinese smelters
restart all their idle capacity and fire
up new capacity. Smelters in China,
the world’s top aluminium producer,
could increase production if domestic
aluminium prices stay at 14,000 to
15,000 yuan a tonne.
Furukawa-sky and mitsui
to take 45% stake
in chinese rolling mills
Japan’s Furukawa­Sky Aluminium
Corp. and Mitsui & Co. have agreed
to take a 45% stake in two Chinese
aluminium rolling mills under Guangdong
Dongyangguang Aluminium.
Under the agreement, Furukawa­Sky
will acquire a 25% stake and Mitsui
a 20% stake in both Ruyuan Dongyangguang
Plain Foil Co. and in Shaoguan
Yangzhiguang Aluminum Foil
Co., which have combined production
of 44,000 tpy of aluminium sheet
and foil products.
Furukawa­Sky, Japan’s leading
manufacturer of aluminium products,
wants to meet rapidly growing demand
for rolled aluminium products
in China as well as to expand sales
and to cultivate new customers locally,
such as Japanese companies, in
co­operation with its partners. Dongyangguang
Aluminium has annual
sales of 2.46bn yuan (USD360m) and
is involved in high­grade aluminium
metal refining, manufacturing and in
the sale of rolled aluminium sheet,
rolled foil, electrolytic capacitors and
fin material for air conditioners.
suppliers
Uae’s eships wins emal
contract to transport alumina
The UAE’s Emirates Ship Investment
Company (Eships) won a contract to
transport around 1m tpy of alumina
from Australia to Emirates Aluminium
(Emal). The three­year contract
will start in 2010. Eships will transport
the alumina in lots of 60,000
tonnes in modern ‘Panamax’ ships,
the largest ships able to pass through
the Panama Canal. The ships will initially
unload at Jebel Ali port in Dubai,
but will switch to Khalifa Port located
at Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi when it
is ready.
Eships is an Abu Dhabi­based ship
owner and operator controlling 11
tankers and bulk carriers. The company
is owned jointly by the Abu
Dhabi Investment Co. and Mubadala
Development Co., Abu Dhabi’s investment
vehicle. Other Eships customers
in the region include Aluminium Bahrain
and Emirates Steel Industries.
siemens to supply
siroll electrostatic
oiler to alcoa samara
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has
received an order to supply a Siroll
electrostatic oiler for a slitting line
at the Alcoa Samara plant in Russia.
This is the first Siroll electrostatic oiler
sold into Russia by Siemens VAI.
The oiler is designed to provide automated,
non­contact, non­pressurized,
protective or lubricating coatings (oil,
wax or chemicals) to moving metal
substrates, in strip or sheet form, accurately
and effectively. The result is
improved end product quality with reduced
wastage and increased yield.
Alcoa’s plant in Samara is Russia’s
largest producer of fabricated aluminium.
The plant is one of the two
producing facilities of Alcoa Russia
that combined hold about 50% of the
domestic mill products market. Alcoa
acquired its facilities in Russia in 2005
and has since invested about $750
million for their total upgrade.
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