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ALUMINIUM SMELTING INDUSTRY
Primary aluminium smelters in Africa, America, Europe, Russia and Oceania:
Nameplate capacities and shutdown capacities on a temporary basis
Country Location Nameplate
capacity
(tpy)
Shutdown
capacity
(tpy)
AFRICA
Cameroon Edéa 100,000 50,000
Egypt Nag Hammadi 320,000
Ghana Tema 200,000 160,000
Mozambique Maputo 565,000
Nigeria Ikot Abasi 200,000 200,000
South Africa Richards Bay, Bayside 100,000
Richards Bay, Hillside 720,000
AMERICA
Argentina Puerto Madryn 465,000
Brazil Belem 460,000 15,000
Saramenha 51,000 5,000
Poços de Caldas 106,000
São Louis 460,000 30,000
Sorocaba 475,000 20,000
Santa Cruz 95,000 95,000
Canada Arvida 163,000
Alma 443,000
Grande Baie 220,000
Kitimat 210,000 50,000
Laterrière 235,000
Shawinigan Falls 100,000
Bécancour 420,000
Sept-Îles 600,000
Deschambault 260,000
Baie Comeau 335,000
USA Sebree 205,000 90,000
Mount Holly 229,000
Evansville 270,000
Massena 135,000
Rockdale 191,000 191,000
Wenatchee 184,000 41,000
Ferndale 280,000 41,000
Hawesville 250,000
New Madrid 280,000
Hannibal 270,000 90,000
Ravenswood 180,000 180,000
St. Lawrence 125,000
Venezuela Puerto Ordaz 170,000 123,000
Mantanzas 448,000 270,000
EUROPE & RUSSIA
Bosnia Mostar 130,000
France Dunkirk 273,000 29,000
St. Jean de Maurienne 140,000 60,000
Compiled by R. P. Pawlek, June 2013
Germany Hamburg 135,000
Voerde 96,000
Essen 170,000
Neuss 230,000 80,000
Greece St. Nicolas 166,000 31,000
Iceland Straumsvik 190,000
Fjardaal 346,000
Grundartangi 285,000
Italy Portoscuso 159,000
Montenegro Podgorica 120,000 60,000
The Netherlands Delfzijl 170,000
Norway Lista 127,500
Mosjoen 221,500
Aardal 233,000
Hoyanger 60,000
Karmoy 170,000
Sunndalsora 400,000 85,000
Husnes 185,000 95,000
Romania Slatina 290,000
Slovenia Kidricevo 75,000
Slovkia Ziar nad Hronom 160,000 16,000
Spain Aviles 93,000 31,500
La Coruña 87,000 31,500
San Ciprian 250,000
Sweden Sundsvall 135,000
United Kingdom Fort William 42,000
Ukraine Zaporozhye 120,000 120,000
Russia Bratsk 1,010,000
Kamensk 75,000
Kandalaksha 75,000
Krasnoturinsk 50,000
Krasnoyarsk 1,010,000
Nadvoitsy 80,000
Novokuznetsk 320,000 30,000
Sayanogorsk 542,000 40,000
Sayanogorsk II 300,000
Volgograd 170,000
Volkhov 24,000
OCEANIA
Australia
Point Henry 190,000
Portland 358,000 30,000
Boyne Island 550,000
Tomago 540,000
Bell Bay 180,000
New Zealand Tiwai Point 351,000
minium prices. Pushing back construction of
the new potline from 2016 to 2019 also comes
because of current market conditions.
In addition, Alcoa would invest USD100m
in the Baie-Comeau smelter over the next
three years, with USD30m of that money earmarked
for upgrading the plant’s casthouse
operations as the company looks to support
growing demand from the automotive sector.
That money comes in addition to USD75m
already scheduled to be spent to rebuild the
plant’s port facilities.
PARAGUAY: In May, it was reported
that Paraguay’s new elected president, Horacio
Cartes, is supportive of the USD4bn aluminium
smelter project planned by Rio Tinto,
which had been opposed by the previous
president Fernando Lugo.
The country is attractive for aluminium production,
due to its partnership with Brazil in
the Itaipu hydro-electric dam project – one of
the biggest in the world – and with Argentina
in the Yacyreta hydro-electric plant. Itaipu
alone provides 17.3% of all the energy consumed
in Brazil and 75.2% of that used by
Paraguay.
As the country does not use all of the en-
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