Outotec to conduct feasibility study for the first alumina refinery to be built in Indonesia
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OUTOTEC OYJ PRESS RELEASE MARCH 8, 2012 AT 2:00 PM
Outotec to conduct feasibility study for the first alumina refinery to be built
in Indonesia
Outotec has agreed with PT ANTAM (Persero) Tbk (ASX: ATM; IDX: ANTM; Antam),
Indonesia's leading diversified mining and metals company, to carry out a
feasibility study for the very first smelter-grade alumina refinery to be built
in Indonesia.
Indonesia is the sixth-largest bauxite producing country in the world.
Nevertheless, thus far the domestic bauxite is not refined to alumina - key raw
material in aluminum production - in Indonesia. Instead, alumina is imported
from Australia to the aluminum smelter located in North Sumatra. Antam is
therefore intending to build the first smelter grade alumina refinery in
Indonesia, in order to utilize its vast bauxite deposits and develop an
integrated value chain for domestic aluminum production.
The feasibility study which will be conducted by Outotec will include
comprehensive mineralogical investigations, laboratory-scale hydrometallurgical
tests and basic engineering of the alumina refinery.
"We are extremely pleased that our expertise spanning the entire value chain --
from ore to refined metal -- will be utilized in developing Indonesia's aluminum
industry. The feasibility study for the new alumina refinery will be based on
Outotec® Alumina Refining technologies which are energy efficient and
sustainable," says Outotec CEO Pertti Korhonen.
For further information please contact:
OUTOTEC
Dr. Peter Weber, President - Energy, Light Metals and Environmental Solutions
Tel. +49 6171 9693165
Eila Paatela, Director - Corporate Communications
Tel. +358 20 529 2004, mobile +358 400 817198
Emails: firstname.lastname(at)outotec.com
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