End-Users

Aluminum

  • Alcoa - Alcoa is the world’s leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina and is active in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa operates 27 wholly or partially owned smelters in every major region of the world with a combined annual production capacity of 4.3 million MT.
     

  • Alba - Aluminium Bahrain produces half a million MT of high quality primary aluminum annually. Since the early 1980s, the company has expanded in four stages from the original 120,000 MT per year capacity to 500,000 MT per year today. 

  • Alcan - the aluminum business of Rio Tinto, is the world's second largest aluminum producer with a production capacity 3.5 million MT.   Alcan has holdings in nine bauxite mines, eight alumina refineries and interests in 15 aluminum smelters. Alcan purchased Pechiney in 2003.

  • Alcoa Inc. - the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. With activities in mining, refining, smelting, fabricating, and recycling in 36 countries, the company provides fabricated and finished aluminum products to customers in the packaging, automotive, aerospace, construction, and other markets.

  • BHP Billiton - one of the world's largest producers of aluminum,  Aluminum production is comprised of  the wholly-owned Bayside Smelter and the Hillside Smelter which are both located in South Africa; a 46% interest in the Alumar smelter located in Brazil and a 47% share in Mozal (Mozambique). BHP Billiton is also a partial owner of 3 alumina refineries and 3 bauxite mines. The company produces approximately 1.3 million MT of aluminum a year.

  • Corperacion Venezolana de Guyana (CVG)- is a decentralized state owned enterprise in Venezuela, comprised of 13 entities.  Venalum, Alcasa, and Alunasa are the aluminum companies that are part of  the CVG conglomerate and produce approximately 550,000 MT of aluminum per year.

  • Dubai Aluminum Company (Dubal) - currently owns and operates a smelter in Dubai that produced 761,000 MT of aluminum in 2005. Dubal expects to expand capacity to 871,000 MT by the end of 2006. 

  • Kaiser Aluminum Corporation - operating through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation is a producer and marketer of alumina, primary aluminum, flat-rolled products, and engineered products. The company also owns a 49% interest in the  Rio Tinto's Anglesey aluminum smelter in Wales.

  • Norsk Hydro - It's Hydro Aluminium Metal , a division of Norsk Hydro,  operates four smelters in Norway with a combined capacity of 930,000 MT/year. In addition, the company owns the Kurri Kurri smelter in Australia with a capacity of 170,000 MT annually.

  • Rio Tinto Alcan - the aluminum business of Rio Tinto, is one of the world's largest aluminum producer.  Rio Tinto produces aluminum from its wholly and partially owned smelters in North America, Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia.  Current operations include 6 bauxite mines (~35 million MT/yr), 10 alumina refineries (~9 million MT/yr), 23 aluminum smelters (~4 million MT/yr), and 12 power generating plants. 

  

Power

  • AES Corporation -  a leading global power company comprised of competitive generation, distribution, and retail supply businesses totaling over 54,000 megawatts of capacity in 23 countries.  AES Deepwater (Pasadena, TX) is one of the largest and most consistent users of petcoke in the power industry.

  • Entergy - Entergy’s non-utility power development, marketing, and trading business unit.  The company has approximately 10,000 megawatts of net capacity in operation, under construction or in advanced development in North America and Western Europe.

  • First Energy - a diversified energy services holding company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Its electric utility operating companies comprise the nation's 10th largest investor-owned electric system, operating 16 power plants that produce approximately 12,000 megawatts of electricity.

  • JEA - the eighth largest municipal utility in the United States providing electricity, water and wastewater service.

  • LG&E Energy - a subsidiary of Powergen plc, is a diversified energy services company with businesses in power generation and project development; retail gas and electric utility services; and asset-based energy marketing.

  • RWE - German conglomerate of companies focusing on the core businesses of energy and the environment.

  • Seminole Electric Cooperative, In  - Seminole Electric is a generation and transmission cooperative, serving an estimated 1.6 million individuals and businesses in portions of 46 counties throughout Florida.

  • TECO Power Services Corporation - a subsidiary of TECO Energy, Inc. which is involved in electric generation/distribution and natural gas distribution. TECO Power Services builds, owns and operates electric generation facilities in high growth areas of North America.

Cement

  • Cemex -  is one of the three largest cement companies in the world, operational in 50 countries, with close to 77 million MT of production cement capacity.  

  • CIMPOR - Cimentos de Portugal is the largest Portuguese cement group, operating in seven countries (Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Brazil, Mozambique, and Egypt) involved in manufacturing and marketing cement, hydraulic lime, concrete and aggregates, precast concrete and dry mortars.

  • Holcim - one of the world's leading suppliers of cement, aggregates and concrete.  Deliveries of cement and clinker total about 82.0 million MT.  

  • Lafarge - world leader in construction materials: Cement, Aggregates & Concrete, Roofing and Gypsum.  With the latest acquisition of Blue Circle, Lafarge will become the first cement manufacturer worldwide with an annual capacity of approximately 150 million metric tons.

  • Votorantim - Votorantim Cimentos is the holding company that concentrates the group’s cement, lime, mortar and concrete businesses in Brazil and abroad. In 2001, Votorantim acquired the Canadian cement producer St. Marys.

Others

TiO2

  • CRISTAL - the sole producer of TiO2 pigment in the Middle East and North Africa. A private joint venture between Shairco, Gulf Investment Corp., National Industrialization Co. and Kerr McGee Chemical Corp., with over 70,000 MT/year of capacity.

  • Dupont  - businesses include White Pigments and Mineral Products, which incorporates titanium dioxide products; Specialty Chemicals, which produces a range of chemical intermediates; and Fluorochemicals, which produces refrigerants.

  • Huntsman Tioxide - is one of the world's largest producers of titanium dioxide pigments, together with associated co-products, with total production capacity of 570,000 MT/year.

  • Kemira Pigments - produces titanium dioxide pigments. The largest customers are paint, paper, plastic and printing ink companies. Kemira has one production plant in Pori, Finland.

  • Kronos - a global leader in the manufacturing and sale of titanium dioxide with six manufacturing sites in North America and Europe and sales offices throughout the world.

  • Millennium Chemicals Inc. - with operations on five continents, Millennium Chemicals Inc. is a major international chemical company, with leading market positions in a broad range of commodity, industrial, performance and specialty chemicals.

Needle Coke

  • Graphite India Ltd. - sells graphite electrodes, carbon paste, specialty graphite products, graphite powders, and calcined petroleum coke.

  • Seadrift Coke LP - Seadrift Coke is a merchant coker and calciner producing premium grade needle coke for the graphite electrode industry.

Shippers/Freight

  • Cargo Port Links - provides links to various ports and terminals throughout the world. Contains information for the marine community regarding vessel traffic and type of cargo handled by each port.

  • Freightworld - the professional guide to worldwide freight transportation and logistics. This electronic publication provides a resource for the freight transportation and logistics industry.

  • Kinder Morgan Energy Partners -  the general partner of KMP is owned by Kinder Morgan, Inc., one of the largest midstream energy companies in America. KMP business segments include bulk terminals, product pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and liquid terminals.

  • Pabtex Bulk Commodity Handling Facility - operated by Kansas City Southern and Savage Gulf Services Ltd., L.L.P, is a major bulk commodity handling facility located in Port Arthur, Texas.  It specializes in exporting petroleum coke and coal, which it receives by train and truck and then transfers to ship for transport to final destination.

  • Savage Industries -  the Company has been in business over fifty years and has materials management and transportation services experience in terminaling, transloading, transportation, inventory management, warehousing, information services.

  • TECO Transport - TECO Transport operates TECO Ocean Shipping, a U.S.-flag oceangoing fleet; TECO Barge Line, a river barge fleet on the U.S. inland waterways; and TECO Bulk Terminal, a dry-bulk commodity deep-water transfer and storage terminal.

  • The Port of Beaumont - maintains complete facilities to handle a variety of cargo, including, but not limited to, Forest Products, Grains, Project Cargo, Military, Bagged Goods, Aggregate, Metals, and Wood Chips.

  • The Port of Tarragona - (Spanish only) contains information and statistics relating to the port and the city.

  • TGS - the company's activities include port operations, deepwater services and a Panamax class self-unloading bulk carrier.  TGS operates seven ocean bulk terminal facilities with a throughput of eight million tons of dry bulk and steel cargo annually. In April 2005, these terminals were purchased by Kinder Morgan.

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