ARANK company in Selangor |
ARANK through his 100% owned subsidiary, Formosa Shyen Horng Metal SB, is principally involved in the manufacturing and marketing of aluminium billets which is the core business of the group. In 1998, Formosa had an installed capacity of 12,000 metric tonnes per annum of aluminium, now, as written in the latest Annual Report 2016, currently, the installed capacity had grown to 120,000 metric tonnes per annum. Being the largest manufacturer and supplier of aluminium billets, and one of the leading of suppliers of aluminium extrusion billets in Asia, the growth for ARANK in 19 years is 900%. From here, we can see that the demand of aluminium had skyrocketed in the past 20 years, and ARANK had been there, feeding and supplying the skyrocketing demand of aluminium in the industry.
But first, we need to understand how aluminium is produced. We can take a look at this youtube video[2]. To make it short, the raw material of aluminium is bauxite. Bayer process is a process to refine bauxite to produce alumina (aluminium oxide). There are only 30% - 54% of alumina in the bauxite[3]. And aluminium is extracted from the alumina by electrolysis, separating aluminium metal in the negative electrode and sink to the bottom of the tank, while oxygen at the positive electrode[4]. All of these processes involved massive machineries and facilities.
The center bottom, aluminium extrusions; the right is the aluminium billets. (Diameter ranging from 3 inches to 11 inches and longest length up to 6 meters) |
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