Insight
Beyond oil: what would it take to revive Venezuela’s aluminium industry
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Report summary
In this Insight we review Venezuela’s aluminium value chain footprint and assess what it would take to revive the once thriving aluminium sector in the country. US action against President Maduro has put accelerating the development the oil sector into focus. However, Venezuela has some potentially high quality aluminium assets and an integrated aluminium value chain. Power shortages, underinvestment, and sanctions have hampered production over the past few decades, but the industrial footprint remains.
Table of contents
- No shortage of potential
- A world class mine starved of investment
- Significant operational hurdles for Bauxilum’s Interalumina refinery despite high quality ore
- Smelting just about hanging on
- What would it take to restart the Venezuelan bauxite-alumina-aluminium complex
- Could Venezuela offer a solution to the US primary aluminium supply chain constraint?
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Venezuela's aluminium footprintVenezuelan (mirror) primary aluminium exports
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