“Our brand value“
We are selling bulk shipment upstream from Gulluk and Roda ports (Turkey), and we mainly name the products according to granulometry of the material (0-10mm; 10-50mm; 50-150mm; 100-200mm).
During 2008, the Bauxite operations of Albuck Mining took off. This increase is mainly attributed to acquisition of new mines. Additionally a significant amount of mining and processing know-how has been transferred from our side.
In 2008 the weak US $ versus the € coupled with high freight rates and energy costs to the roof made our task even more challenging to supply costumers. Despite those difficulties, major investments were performed to gather new properties and develop logistics.
Production of bauxite increased from previous year to supply the unfulfilled world wide market demand. An investment program was implemented for production quality control and technical support in order to strengthen our position as a known reliable producer and supplier of high quality bauxite, so we can meet the costumer satisfaction needs.
The Calcium Aluminate cement market represents a large part of the sales revenue, Albuck bauxite has excellent physico-chemical properties compared to competitive products for this application.
In the iron and steel making segment, a lot of efforts are put to further develop the European and US markets in this segment.
The Portland Cement segment represents most of domestic sales, prospects are positive for the future. Efforts are put to strengthen our presence in North America and North Africa.
In Mineral Fibers and abrasives markets, demand is low but stable.
