Aluminum

Aluminum: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the aluminum industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

• Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

• Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

• Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 5 individual country markets

• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

A 13.4% CAGR, drove the global aluminum market to a value of $45.7 billion in 2005.

Global production volume increased with a 6.6% CAGR to reach 24.8 million tonnes.

Asia-Pacific contributes a dominant 40.6% share of global revenues, and also has the market with the fastest value growth.

The aluminum industry is a major user of electricity due to the energy intensive electrolytic process used for its production., making margins sensitive to energy prices.

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• Spot future trends and developments

• Inform your business decisions

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Definitions

The aluminum market consists of the production of primary aluminum only. Recycled aluminum is not included within this report. The market is valued at manufacturers' selling price (MSP). Any currency conversions used in this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates. Company market shares given in this report represent volume shares.

For the purposes of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and UK. Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, Taiwan, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The Americas consists of Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the US. The global industry refers to Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.