Jim Lennon Tons Quotations

The data suggests that China's appetite for imported alumina continues unabated despite domestic alumina capacity increases, which are now expected to add around 2.2 million tons to Chinese alumina production this year.

Although there has been or will be more than 6 million tons of new annual alumina capacity added over the 2005 and 2006 period, how quickly these new entrants can ramp up to full production is open to question.