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IRON AND STEEL

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PROCESSES

  • Agglomeration
  • Coking
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  • Basic Oxygen Furnace
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  • Ladle Metallurgy
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  • Ingot Casting
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  • 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

Aluminum Trends: Major Products and Markets

major_products_marketsEnvironmental Issues
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

Containers and packaging is the single largest market for the aluminum industry, accounting for 26.2% of all shipments. Transportation is the second largest followed by building and construction. Other markets are electrical, consumer durables, machinery and equipment.

 

Aluminum Statistical Review for 1993, Aluminum Association, p. 12

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