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  COLOMBIA “THE NEW KID IN THE BLOCK” OF ALUMINIUM PRODUCING COUNTRIES Colombia is a country known worldwide, among other reasons, for: ·          Its excellent coffee: Video: Why is Colombian coffee considered the best coffee in the world? https://youtu.be/2oIo2S2vfEY ·          Cyclists who have won the most important world cycling competitions: Video: Egan Bernal - Wins/wint Tour de France 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Xfe4mxJo8 ·          And from artists who liven up high impact international events: Video: Shakira & J. Lo's FULL Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILCn6VO_RU But, soon Colombia will also be known as a primary aluminium producer, as we are working on the GALTCO Project , our Green Aluminium Transformation Complex for Colombia . WHY COLOMBIA? There are numerous reasons to think of Colombia as...

VENEZUELA AND GREEN ALUMINUM PRODUCTION IS THE WORLD MOSTLY PRODUCING GREEN ALUMINUM? In the world there is strong pressure for industrial processes and their products to meet two conditions: 1) caring for the environment; 2) contribution to the circular economy. Aluminum being an infinitely recyclable material, it fully complies with the concepts of the circular economy. As for caring for the environment, being the production of aluminum an electro-intensive process, it is ideal to use electrical energy generated from renewable sources. When we review the energy sources used for the production of aluminum in 2019, we find that the combustion of coal contributed in the order of 60% of the electrical energy to produce the aluminum used worldwide.  In fact, hydroelectric energy only contributed with approximately 25% of the total aluminum produced during 2019.  When we consider all the sources, renewable and non-renewable, used to generate the electricity used by aluminum sm...

  VENEZUELA, ALUMINIO E INVERSIÓN EXTRANJERA DIRECTA Es un hecho público y notorio que la Economía Venezolana ha sufrido un marcado deterioro, como se evidencia en los actuales bajos niveles de producción de insumos que otrora fueron puntales de su economía como lo son: i) la industria petrolera; y ii) el Parque Industrial de la Región Guayana, el que abarca a la industria integrada del   aluminio, el sector hierro y acero, la minería no metálica, los más importantes complejos hidroeléctricos del país, entre otros. Siendo el interés de este blog la industria del aluminio nos enfocaremos en ese caso, para lo que comenzaremos con los siguientes postulados: i) La situación de deterioro de la industria del aluminio en Venezuela es consecuencia de cómo ha sido gerenciada esta industria; ii) Como ha sido explicado en otras entregas de este blog, Venezuela posee grandes ventajas comparativas para contar con una industria eficiente y rentable en toda la cadena productiva del alumi...

VENEZUELA HAS HIGH LEVEL HUMAN RESOURCES TO SUPPORT AN EFFICIENT ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY Much has been said about Venezuela's comparative advantages in producing aluminium, which is why Venezuela has been considered an ideal site for the construction of large-scale complex aluminium producers. Due to these conditions, during the decade of the eighties, the construction of plants was projected that would raise the installed production capacity in the country to two million tons of aluminium per year. However, for various reasons this potential was not exploited, so many investments that could be made in Venezuela were carried out in places such as Canada, South Africa, and more recently in several countries in the Middle East. Regardless of past mistakes made by government institutions that prevented the establishment of a world-class bauxite-alumina-aluminium integrated industry, Venezuela still has its comparative advantages to produce aluminium competitively; therefore the AlProTeS w...