Publisher's Synopsis
Lists the world's producers of non-ferrous metals from smelters through refiners to semi-fabricators. The book also list mines operated by metal producers. The emphasis in the directory is on company ownership, management details, production processes employed and raw materials used, as well as information on each company's products, annual capacity and output. Increasingly, as more information becomes available concerning Eastern Europe, the former USSR and China, the previously sparse entries for these areas are becoming more substantial. At the same time, the processes of privatization and globalization are bringing about major changes in the ownership of many metal producing companies, and these are also reflected in the directory.;This work is intended for the use of traders, raw materials suppliers (for mines and scrap metal merchants), metal consumers of all kinds, suppliers of plant and technology, consultants and metal producers themselves.;The pre-publication prices which apply for the directory outside the UK are as follows: airmail Europe, #136.00 (US$,286.00; DM, 408.00); airmail rest of world, #142.00 (US$, 299.00; DM, 426.00). The post-publication prices which apply (after May 31st) are: #147.00 in the UK, first class; airmail Europe, #151.00 (US$, 317.00;DM, 453.00); airmail the rest of the world, #157.00 (US$, 330.00; DM, 471.00)
