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IRON AND STEEL

Overview

PROCESSES

  • Agglomeration
  • Coking
  • Blast Furnace
  • Direct Reduction
  • Basic Oxygen Furnace
  • Electric Arc Furnace
  • Heat Treating
  • Ladle Metallurgy
  • Continuous Casting
  • Ingot Casting
  • Ladle Preheating
  • Secondary Finishing
  • Surface Coating

ALUMINUM

Overview

PROCESSES

  • Mining/Primary Processing
  • Recycle/Scrap Melting
  • Aluminum Casting
  • Aluminum Smelting
  • Anode Baking
  • Bauxite Mining
  • Bauxite Refining
  • Extrusion
  • Forging
  • Heat Treating
  • Molten Handling
  • Rolling

Trends: Distribution of Processing Plants



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Environmental Issues
International Competition
Major Products and Markets
Regulations and NOx Control
Summary
Trends / Major Products
Trends / Employment and Productivity
Trends / Energy Consumption by Fuel
Trends / Primary Aluminum Production
Trends / Total Supply of Aluminum
Trends / World Aluminum Output
Trends / Distribution of Power Plants
Trends / Distribution of Processing Plants

Aluminum processing mills are much less sensitive to the cost of electricity than primary smelters and are typically located near major markets. It is also common for large smelters to be part of an integrated operation, thus major foundries and processing mills are often located near smelters.

 

Locations of Major aluminum processing mills

(Foil, Sheet & Plate)

 

foil

(Extrusions)

extrusions

(Forging/Impacts, Powder & Paste)

forging

(Wire, Drawing & Bare Cable)

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