INDIA ALUMINIUM

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKAAN INDIAN metal consultancy has warned that India must rapidly develop scrap aluminium recycling plants, because primary production will fail to cope with growing demand for the metal in the future.Ranchi-based group Mecon Ltd has said that in the long term, the situation could become very dire, assuming Indian aluminium consumption increases to 3.5 kg per person per year by the middle of the century. It says that such demand could not be met through primary metal production because of the energy supplies required to keep pace ...


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