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Alumina market trends in the 1990s
Author(s) -
Oosterbeek M. A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1992.tb00561.x
Subject(s) - aluminium smelting , limit (mathematics) , smelting , focus (optics) , business , economics , natural resource economics , monetary economics , industrial organization , agricultural economics , metallurgy , materials science , mathematics , physics , optics , mathematical analysis
During the past decade, alumina prices have been highly volatile, so much so that it has endangered the existence of some producers, and limited the ability of some smelters to benefit from higher aluminium prices. Although certain trends can be identified for the 1990s, some factors could again result in large price fluctuations in the alumina market. After a review of those identified trends and factors, this paper attempts to focus on ways to limit the effect of fluctuations in the non‐integrated alumina market.