NZ economy about to crash, page-33

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    It's old plant built 1971 and producing less than 300,000 tonnes per year.
    It just can not compete with the new smelters e.g. Bahrain 1.54 million tonnes p.a. Saudi 0.7 million p.a. Qatar 0.6 million p.a. UAE 1.8 million p.a.
    About 65 million tonnes of primary aluminium is produced world wide p.a. with China producing almost half via power from mainly coal fired power plants - smelting is an energy intensive process.

 
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