Alumina Contracts Break Record

Caustic soda supply contracts to the alumina customers settled $235/m.t. higher at a record $645/m.t., fob Gulf Coast, for the second half, market sources say. Weak demand for co-product chlorine and production interruptions at several major North American chlor-alkali plants have severely tightened caustic soda availability in the first half of 2008, sources...

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