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[July 2004]
Almatis Invests in Alumina Facility in China
Industrial Heating (www.industrialheating.com) reports that Almatis, the alumina materials company formerly known as Alcoa World Chemicals and still headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, has invested in a fully integrated tabular alumina facility at its existing Qingdao plant in the Shangdong Province in PR China.
The US$18 million investment will expand existing tabular alumina capacity, supporting installation of two shaft kilns for tabular alumina sintering and more than doubling the existing crushing and screening capacity.
Under Almatis' long-term supply agreement with Alcoa, the Qingdao plant will be supplied with calcined alumina feedstock from Alcoa Australia.
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