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For its part, Korea Zinc argues Young Poong hopes to siphon off cash from the company, and that MBK has little experience running a smelter.
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Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025
Those events fed into a strong market for alumina which has in turn driven up the price of aluminum, forcing some metal smelters to trim production, including a move by Rusal, Russia’s biggest aluminum company to cut 250,000 tons of metal from its annual target.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Aluminum smelters also produced record volumes during 2020, as did cement plants, with China’s production of each commodity accounting for nearly 60 percent of the global total.
—Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021
While some Arizona mines use an electrolytic chemical process to distill copper and some ship to a smelter in Miami-Globe, others ship to Mexico or beyond.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025
Those events fed into a strong market for alumina which has in turn driven up the price of aluminum, forcing some metal smelters to trim production, including a move by Rusal, Russia’s biggest aluminum company to cut 250,000 tons of metal from its annual target.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Aluminum smelters also produced record volumes during 2020, as did cement plants, with China’s production of each commodity accounting for nearly 60 percent of the global total.
—Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021
While some Arizona mines use an electrolytic chemical process to distill copper and some ship to a smelter in Miami-Globe, others ship to Mexico or beyond.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Smelter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smelter. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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smelter
noun
smelt·er
ˈsmel-tər 
1
: a person whose work or business is smelting
2
or smeltery
-tə-rē
: an establishment for smelting
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