Wednesday Sept 19 3pm 7pm Registration desk open – 5pm 7pm Welcome Reception – Thursday Sept 20 9.00 - 9.05 Welcome, housekeeping items Paul Adkins – 9.05 9.15 Official opening of Conference Ron Knapp, Secretary – – General, International Aluminium Institute 9.15 10.00 Key note speaker China: Is the Walk Matching the Talk? – – The main theme of this conference is to bring clarity to the audience about what is going on in China and how economic and China’s strategic direction might inform or deform the aluminum industry. Our guest speaker today will look vision for itself, its at China’s economic agenda, the role of debt, and its true plans regarding supply side reform and environmental clean-up. How will external China’s relations colour its domestic agenda? How will debt change the course of economic growth? What are the greatest risks to continuing growth and prosperity for the industry and for the market? Our guest speaker will give us some clarity on these questions. Key Note Speaker: Anne Stevenson-Yang 10.00-10.20 Morning coffee 10.20-11.30 Panel Session 1: The Big Issues China produces 55% of the and consumes world’s aluminium, almost as much. But China has only 25% of the world’s population. This is but one aspect of the big issues confronting the aluminium industry. Environmental restrictions, Supply Side Reform, Tariff and trade wars, energy policy and the war on use of coal as a fuel, and the pressure on China from some quarters to reduce subsidies and over-capacity these are just some of the – big issues the panel will discuss.
Wednesday Sept 19 3pm – 7pm Registration desk open 5pm – 7pm Welcome Reception Thursday Sept 20 9.00 - 9.05 Welcome, housekeeping items – Paul Adkins 9.05 – 9.15 Official opening of Conference – Ron Knapp, Secretary General, International Aluminium Institute 9.15 – 10.00 Key note speaker – China: Is the Walk Matching the Talk? The main theme of this conference is to bring clarity to the audience about what is going on in China and how China’s economic and strategic direction might inform or deform the aluminum industry. Our guest speaker today will look at China’s vision for itself, its economic agenda, the role of debt, and its true plans regarding supply side reform and environmental clean-up. How will China’s external relations colour its domestic agenda? How will debt change the course of economic growth? What are the greatest risks to continuing growth and prosperity for the industry and for the market? Our guest speaker will give us some clarity on these questions. Key Note Speaker: Anne Stevenson-Yang 10.00-10.20 Morning coffee 10.20-11.30 Panel Session 1: The Big Issues China produces 55% of the world’s aluminium, and consumes almost as much. But China has only 25% of the world’s population. This is but one aspect of the big issues confronting the aluminium industry. Environmental restrictions, Supply Side Reform, Tariff and trade wars, energy policy and the war on use of coal as a fuel, and the pressure on China from some quarters to reduce subsidies and over-capacity – these are just some of the big issues the panel will discuss.
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