Thursday, February 21, 2008

Mumbai To Host 3-Day Aluminium India 2008 Expo

Mumbai: Leading aluminium manufacturers will display their wares and transact business with the target audience at the three-day exhibition — ‘Aluminium India 2008’ beginning Friday at Bombay Exhibition centre in Mumbai. Run-up to Budget 2008-09

The exhibition will have an international participation of over 70 per cent. Apart from global giants like Alcan of France and Wenstaff of US, India majors such as Nalco, Hindalco, Balco and Vedanta Resources have confirmed their participation.

The exhibition will display the latest technology used world over by aluminium companies.

The expo will provide a gist of the entire aluminium industry and its various application sectors. The other important topics to be covered are environment and management, cast house technology, recycling and melting and rolling and extrusion.

Dr Subbarammi Reddy, Minister of State for Mines, will inaugurate the exhibition.

A conference on global trend ‘Alcastek’ to be chaired by industry veteran Dr Madhukar Nilmani will be held on Friday. Speakers at the conference include G. Kirchner, Chairman of Global Aluminium Recycling Committee, Germany; U. Patel, Principal Consultant CRU, UK; and P. Suri, President of Aluminium major Balco.

The afternoon session will focus on transport sector with speakers from Mahindra and Mahindra, Ausmelt, Australia and Alcan, Germany. Orissa government is one of the partners of the event

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