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ers and downstream industry in the GCC spend at least
$25 million every year on training employees on various
aspects of aluminium industry and each of the smelter
has a multi-million dollars training facilities to meet the
training demand. Yet there is not a structural link between
the aluminium industry and the educational system;
there will be significant benefit if the efforts to take
advantageofthesynergieswillbefinalized.Wehavetalented
local people, we have advanced technical industrial
experience and we have excellent universities and
educational institutions, the next step is the need for
closer collaboration between each of the smelters and
their local educational institution on the field of R+D related
to Aluminium Technology & Product innovation. A
third point is referred to the new challenges to Gulf Society,
Institutions, Industry and particularly to the managers
of the organizations, the past is no longer the
guidetothefuture,wearenowgoingthroughaphase
of adjustments, improvement of efficiency and gradual
adaptation to new realities; the new environment in the
Gulf which is still changing makes it important to utilize
our local talents in leadership positions in our industries
and provide them with the needed training experience
and opportunities to meet the international competitiveness
of the industry.
There has been ample talk regarding the
relationship between the Gulf smelters and
the European industry of the processing
and use of aluminium, considering the
obstacle of the EU tariffs which weigh down
the importation of raw metal coming from the
MiddleEast.TheheavyunbalanceinEurope
betweentheproductionanduseofaluminium
leads this tariff to be increasingly
considered as an absurd and inexplicable
measure that penalizes the manufacturing
industry in Europe, without protecting
anything. Could you comment on this issue?
I mentioned in several occasions that of all the protection
measures and regardless of the reasons, the duty imposed
by EU on import of unwrought aluminium is the least justified,
most unwarranted and out dated. How can a region with an
acute shortage and growing demand for a strategic raw material
as aluminium continue to have an import tariff? The reason
forkeepingsuchdutywhenothershaveremovedit,example
Japan & US, is clearly to subsidies the aluminium producers in
Europe, i.e. to continue the policy of hidden subsidy that has
beengoingonandhasbeenstronglylobbiedbythebeneficiaries
of the subsidy at an annual cost of 1.5 billion Euros to
the consumers in EU. But it has clearly not served its purpose
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Source: Harbor
minio primario del mondo, ma il suo contributo ai prodotti
downstream a valore aggiunto è inferiore al 3%. Occorre
pensareinmodopiùcreativoperattrarreattivitàaelevato
valore aggiunto, come la componentistica automotive, che
èdiversarispettoall’industriaesistentenelGolfo.Nonèfacile,madicemmolastessacosaquandofucostruitoilprimo
smelternelGolfo.Un’altrasfidaèlaformazionenelcampo
della tecnologia dell’alluminio: gli smelter e l’industria down-
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