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"Currently, the smelter has seen profit margins shrink, and recycled aluminum corporate profit margins are expected to significantly increase." Reporters recently co-sponsored by the newspaper and the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, "2008 China Nonferrous Metals Industry Chain Development Forum and the aluminum industry chain Forum "learned, recycled aluminum with its excellent energy-saving features become the highlight of the aluminum industry and the aluminum industry has become an important part of sustainable development.
According to industry experts, China is one of the largest aluminum producing and consuming country in the world, to improve the utilization of recycled aluminum, not only saving energy, but also conducive to recycling aluminum resources, which is a contemporary benefit future generations benefit "Green Project."
Bauxite carrying capacity "as before"
In fact, referring to the aluminum industry, people first thought would be of alumina and aluminum.
Deputy secretary of the China Nonferrous Metals Resource Geological Survey Young soldiers of bauxite resources when it comes to the best carrying capacity of alumina production and some worried, "consider the best carrying capacity of alumina must be based on the reality that must be considered high clinker and other industry demand for aluminum bauxite, but the current situation is beyond people's expectations. "
According to Yang Bing, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and other places are great on the alumina plant, planning scale northern regions of Henan, Shanxi, west of Chongqing alumina industry has greatly exceeded the carrying capacity of bauxite resources. There is, southern Guizhou, Guangxi alumina scale industrial plan also been close to the carrying capacity of bauxite resources. Yang Bing's view, "the current pace of development to increase the alumina industry's macro-control efforts is imminent."
Barclays Capital Research Fellow Ms. Berry in his speech that the current most critical factor affecting the price of aluminum is aluminum production cost trend "energy problem" caused by rising and supply is limited. It is understood that all the metal species, aluminum production and consumption of electricity up to about 14,000 kwh per ton, the cost of electricity accounts for about 31% of aluminum production costs, and therefore a substantial rise in energy prices directly increase the aluminum production costs. Since the beginning of this year the domestic aluminum industry to cancel preferential rates, but also directly increase the domestic electrolytic aluminum production costs.
Long, deputy director of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Exhibition Association aluminum unit at the forum called on the current development of electrolytic aluminum enterprises to remain calm, or else would adversely affect their own development. In his view, the state issued on the "aluminum industry access conditions" is the healthy development of China's aluminum industry policy, industry needs to actively implement.
Energy saving extract a "turning waste into treasure"
It is understood that the developed countries for the use of renewable aluminum attached great importance to Japan's primary aluminum recycled aluminum accounts for the proportion reached 95 percent, the United States more than 52%, Germany 54%, while at present only about 20% of China's far behind the world's developed countries, there is much room for development.
The growing awareness of environmental protection today, recycled aluminum showing its dark side - saving. Careful people will find that packaging changes taking place quietly, beverage cans people use every day than 10 years ago, a lot of light, but these are mostly used beverage cans are recycled aluminum materials.
"Let recycled aluminum energy saving has to have a go on the stage." Some experts said that the current energy consumption of recycled aluminum yuan of industrial added value of energy consumption of less than 1/3 of the national industry average, with obvious advantages of energy saving, And do not belong to the state-controlled high energy consumption, high pollution industries. Compared with primary aluminum production, each producing one ton of recycled aluminum saves 95% of energy, while water-saving 10 tons, 11 tons of solid material saving. Pollutants emitted during the regeneration of waste aluminum equivalent to only 10% of primary aluminum production.
Since it is a renewable, it must have a fixed stock. It is understood that China in 20 years time, has accumulated nearly 70 million tons of aluminum, which provides a great resource for the secondary aluminum industry.
In 2007, the state first published on recycled aluminum industry access policy, determine the new recycled aluminum production capacity should not be less than 50,000 tons, the original recycled aluminum business capacity should not be less than 20,000 tons. From the industry perspective, the actual annual output of 50,000 tons of recycled aluminum business development from 2003 to 2008 two five companies 10,000 tons to 50,000 tons between a hundred there. At the same time, due to the surge in demand for recycled aluminum market, the lack of domestic and imported scrap recovery amount has substitution effect, etc., resulting in imports of scrap rate is also growing.
Estimate from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Recycling Metal Branch show that in 2007 China's secondary aluminum production was 2.75 million tons, ranking second in the world. Industry insiders said that in 2010 China's secondary aluminum production is expected to overtake the US as the first recycled aluminum-producing countries
New investment is still mainly of recycled aluminum
Experts Li Hongwei Shanghai Sigma Co. spoke, along with China continued to improve regeneration aluminum industrial environment, in 2010 to promote the legal and policy framework for renewable resources, recycling is expected to set up science and technology awareness of the industry, environmental awareness, self-awareness will continue to strengthen. By then, China's secondary aluminum industry restructuring will be completed, the initial formation of modern recycled aluminum industry. He pointed out that although the number of the current level of aluminum-scale regeneration is still not enough, the annual output of over 100,000 tons of business for less than 1%, but as the market consolidation to accelerate from recycled aluminum powerhouse days are not far away.
Currently, recycled aluminum investment trend internationally is "generous" and "starting point." In the majority of the industry view, at this stage of recycled aluminum industry is still a new investment trend-based, large-scale mergers and acquisitions difficult to integrate. The reason is that mergers and acquisitions tend to occur in mature markets and industries, while China is in the secondary aluminum industry upgrade process does not have the conditions for mergers and acquisitions integration. In January 2007, Shanghai Sigma acquired TKL melting aluminum, China's two largest recycled aluminum factory implementations merger, but that does not mean China will be a wave of M & A integration. Recycled aluminum industry of major new enterprises will take into account market demand, regional competitiveness, growth potential and investment environment, and other factors.
According to industry sources, to seek low-cost renewable energy has become an investment in the aluminum industry trend, like the western region will have the advantage. The past two years, renewable aluminum industry investment exhibits from the eastern to the western, southern transfer tendency, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan and become recycled aluminum investment in key areas, mainly because of the cost of recycled aluminum as the price of coal in the past years, rising rapidly.
Of course, some experts warned that, due to the country's attention and environmental protection, energy needs, investment recycled aluminum has become a craze, but surging in addition to boom, as well as cold, must be aware of. For example, scrap supply in the short term our country can not be guaranteed without the resources and support of recycled aluminum business is in the air. There is, there is a serious domestic surplus of backward production capacity, which can be separated from the main part of the production outside the enterprise, fair competition would cause serious threats.Prev News：>
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