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January/February 2012
The Jan/Feb edition of Aluminium International Today contains features on Primary, Casthouse and conference reports from two events.
The primary features includes articles from Asas Aluminium and its Six Sigma scheme, a look at the smelter of tomorrow from China's Chalieco and a look at how data dashboards have changed Sohar Aluminium's working ways.
The Casthouse feature inculdes articles from Pyrotek and Aluar Argentina while conference reports come from the Arabal event held in Muscat, Oman and from the ICSOBA seminar in Goa, India.
See you at TMS in March!
Front cover picture courtesy of Dubal.
2 NEWS
UPDATES
8 BRAZIL – Brazilian sheet and plates market
10 UKRAINE – Row threatens Ukrainian industry
12 ALFED – Alfed celebrates 50th anniversary
PRIMARY
15 Simulator solution for pot machine training
18 Six Sigma at Asas Aluminium
22 An outline of a smelter for tomorrow
25 Data dashboards improve a company’s
business intelligence
28 Plasma treatment of spent pot liner
32 Rusal completes VAS modernisation
34 A firing and control system for anode baking
38 Dubal strengthens casting position
CASTHOUSE
41 Thermocouple protection tubes:
Integral for casthouse efficiency
45 A casting table maintenance system:
Aluar’s key to quality billets
CONFERENCE REPORTS
50 Arabal 2011: The rise of the Middle East
54 Opportunities in bauxite residue
Website news from this issue
- Alcoa in jet manufacturer deal
- UC Rusal in coke agreement
- Aluminum Association applauds recycling move
- Novelis commissions Alunorf recycling centre
- Output up in October
- EAFA website
- Beverage can site expansion
- Siemens extends Ulsan rolling mill
- Ma’aden signs second phase financing deal
- Kubal order stub straightener from VHE
- Jindal plans double expansion
- Marubeni Corp doubles stake in Aluminerie Alouette
- Chinese October production down
- Chinese firm plans Cambodian bauxite site
- Aluminum Association Highlights (for week ending Nov 25)
- Rusal buys Chinese stake
- Launch of Alu Solutions sustainability conference
- Hydro: Demand to remain strong
- COM 2012 – Call for Abstracts New Deadline
- Rio Tinto in $2.7bn Kitimat modernisation
- Emal celebrates 1 million tonne landmark
- Aluminum Association Highlights December 2, 2011
- Orbite awards alumina calcination contract to Outotec
- Vedanta Aluminium suffers refinery setback
- Sapa closes deal for Chinese extrusion plant
- Rusal to buy Bogoslovsk power plant
- Minimising stub erosion
- Aleris to build German casting facility
- Japan to increase Al consumption
- ECL secures Kitimat contract
- Alcom in $5M expansion
- US and Indian associations sign agreement
- Talex signs Abu Dhabi extrusion deal
- NZ smelter in 10 million milestone
- Alba opens HK office
- Chinese plan to convert coal ash into alumina
- Zalco granted bankruptcy by Dutch court
- Rusal plans packaging production increase
- Kobe Steel to form aluminium joint venture in China
- Novelis in $50M Brazilian coating expansion
- Dubal signs technology license agreement with Emal
- ExxonMobil launches enhanced lubricants
- Labour disruptions continue at Alma smelter
- Nikolaev refinery in record output
- Chinalco improves its profit in 2011
- Alcoa to cut smelting capacity
- Economical preheating furnace improves safety
- Alba achieves record annual production
- Novelis secures Coca-Cola supply deal
- Alcoa to close smelters in Italy and Spain
- Norsk Hydro ponders production cuts at Kurri Kurri
- Nordural smelter suffers power outage
- Sapa completes Cressona expansion
- Apple Chinese plant explosions caused by Al dust
- Malaysia plant to double output
- Police operation targets UK metal theft
- Sapa buys $34M indirect press
- Novelis Korea orders cold rolling mill
- Magnetic hydromixer at Krasnoyarsk smelter
- China unveils development plan
- Glencore considering Portovesme acquisition?
- Constellium completes $46M Ravenswood project
- Alcoa expands aluminium lithium capacity
- Alubond in Turkish expansion plan