Jun 15 2004
Almatis announced today the expansion of ground reactives batch mill capacity at their Bauxite, Arkansas manufacturing facility. The newly re-started reactives batch mill is now successfully producing Almatis’ superground reactive products. Rapid growth in global demand for reactive alumina products supports this expedited investment. The recently announced, new large capacity reactives batch mill at the Almatis Ludwigshafen, Germany plant is on schedule for 4th quarter 2004 startup. High-performance reactive aluminas supply the growing refractory and ceramic markets.
The successful mill startup has added capacity for Almatis’ broad family of reactive alumina products, which includes A-16 SG, A-1000 SG, RG-100, A-3000 FL, A-152 SG and more. Superground reactive aluminas are mainly used for specialty ceramic products, as well as refractory matrix improvements.
“As an independent organization, focused solely on our core strength of specialty alumina materials supply, Almatis is better able to serve all our customers. We are more agile, more able to quickly respond to market demand.” Gangolf Kriechbaum, Almatis’ Chief Commercial Officer stated.
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