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country. The company owns a ferroalloy bishi Corp., began construction of
its 27,000plant with an annual capacity of 11,000 ton-per-year ferrosilicon
plant. The facility tons2 was scheduled to come on-stream toward 
 Australia.—Pioneer Concrete Ltd. and the end of 1986. Kawasaki
Steel
will take French metals producer Pechiney agreed to one-third of the plant's
output. 
set up ajoint venture to build a silicon plant Eletrometalur and ha og Lilleby
Smeltenear Hobart, Tasmania. The new plant, verker A/S of Norway formed a
joint yenestimated to cost $34 million, would be 60% ture to produce silicon
metal in Brazil. Two owned by Pioneer with Pechiney holding 14,000-kilowatt
furnaces will be erected at the remainder and was expected to be Captain
Eneas, Minas Gerais. The 20,000completed by June 1987. The joint venture
ton-per-year operation was expected to intends initially to build a single
18.5- come on-stream in mid-1987. Plant output megawatt submerged arc furnace,
which will be for export. Alcan AlumInio do Brasil will produce about 13,000
tons per year of S.A. agreed to sell its ferroalloys division to salable
alloy or chemical-grade silicon met- Cia. Paulista de Ferro-Ligas. Alcan's
propal, based on technology of Pechiney's sub- erties included two single-furnace
opersidiary Pechiney Electrometallurgie.~ ations with a total capacity of
about 19,000 
 BraziL—Brazil announced that it plan- tons per year of 75% ferrosilicon.
A third ned to triple its output of silicon ferroalloys facility produces
siicomanganese. All by 1990 including ferrosiicon and silicon plants are
in Minas Gerais. Cia. de Ferrometal Brazil s aggressive expansion pro- Ligas
Minas Gerais brought on stream a 15gram comcides with diminishmg capacity
in MSVA furnace in August mcreasmg its the United States and Japan However
ferrosilicon capacity from 26000 tons per worldwide overcapacity is still
the main year to 40000 tons of 75% material Cia de problem facing the world
ferroalloy Ferro-Ligas da Bahia S.A. planned to remdustry4 sume ferrosilicon
production by building 
 Italmagnesio S A Industria e Comercio three 13000 ton per year furnaces
in Salva planned tostart silicon metal production by dor, BraziL The first
furnace was scheduled March 1986 by converting its 24-megavolt- for completion
in December. 
ampere (MV*A) submerged arc furnace Mineracöes Brasileiras Reunidas
S.A.'s (a from ferrosilicon production. The furnace Brazilian iron ore producer)
plans to build was scheduled for operation in January two 15,000-kilovolt-ampere
(kV*A) electric 1986. Its monthly capacity for silicon metal furnaces in
Pirapora were approved by production is rated at about 1,100 tons. Conselho
de Nao-Ferrosos e de Siderurgia Italmagnesio also planned to build a new
(CONSIDER). The $23 million ferrosilicon 13-MV.A furnace for silicon metal
produc- plant was to have a capacity to produce tion. The unit was expected
to be completed about 26,000 tons of ferrosilicon per year. by June 1986.
Ferro-Ligas Assofun S.A. Brazil's Interior Minister approved new inbegan
installation of an electric furnace for vestment in the Inoculantes e Ferro-Ligas
ferrosiicon production at its ferroalloy Nipo Brasileiros S.A. (INONIBRAS)
ferroplant in Sâo Joas da Boa Vista, doubling silicon project.
INONIBRAS
planned to incapacity to about 15,000 tons per year. The crease capacity
from 7,000 tons per year to company negotiated with Nippon Kokan 29,Q00 tons.
Osaka Special Alloy Ltd. holds and Mitsui Co. Ltd., with the aim of estab-
a 30% share in the company, whose smelter lishing a joint venture to raise
a part of the is in Mato Grosso State. 
fmancing required for the construction. Cia. France.—Pechiney Electrometallurgie,
a Brasileria Carbureto de Calcio (CBCC) con- subsidiary of Pechiney, planned
to increase verted one of its old 30-MV*A ferrosiicon silicon metal capacity
by about 14,000 tons furnaces to silicon metal production. CBCC per year
by switching a ferrosilicon alloy brought a new 30-MV*A furnace on-stream
unit to silicon metal production at its Anabout midyear for ferrosilicon
production. glefort plant. The new capacity was exProduction for the new
unit was expected to pected to come on-line in early 1986. Pechibe about
20,000 tons per year. CBCC also ney, the parent company, already has about
signed a contract to supply Toyo Denka 83,000 tons of silicon metal capacity.
The Kogyo Co. Ltd. with 5,000 tons per year of conversion was made because
the market ferrosiicon. Eletrovale, a joint venture 60% outlook was more
promising for silicon metowned by Cia. Vale do Rio Doce and Eletro- al than
for ferrosilicon. In the fourth quarmetalur S.A. Indástria e Comérico
and 20% ter, Pechiney announced cutbacks in ferroeach by Kawasaki Steel Corp.
and Mitsu- silicon production, owing to world overca