Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5 SWOT
Analysis — 7 Iran Political SWOT — 7
Iran Economic SWOT — 7 Iran Business Environment
SWOT — 8 Global Metals Market
Overview — 9 Table: World’s Top 10 Steel Producing
Countries, 2007 And 2008 — 11 Aluminium
Outlook — 12 Table: BMI Aluminium
Forecast — 12 Table: Global Primary Smelter Aluminium
Production, 2008-2010 (‘000 tonnes) — 14 Copper
Outlook — 14 Table: BMI Copper
Forecast — 14 Metals Price
Outlook — 16 Table: Stock Levels At London Metal Exchange
Warehouses (tonnes) — 18 Global Mining
Outlook — 18 Table: Biggest Chinese Acquisitions In
Australia Since 2005 — 20 Table: Global Mining – Top
Five Companies By Market Capitalisation (US$mn) — 22
Table: Global Mining – Key Players’ Future Investment Plans
(selected projects) — 23 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 25 Table: Iran’s Metals Industry,
2006-2013 — 28 Macroeconomic
Forecasts — 29 Barely Expanding This
Year — 29 Table: Iran - Economic Activity,
2006-2013 — 32 Competitive
Landscape — 33 Recent
Developments — 34 Company
Profiles — 38 Mobarakeh Steel
Company — 38 Esfahan Steel Company
(ESCO) — 39 Global Assumptions — 40
Table: Global Assumptions, 2007-2013 — 40 Table: Developed
States GDP Growth, 2008-2010 — 42 Table: Emerging Markets
GDP Growth, 2008-2010 — 43 Table: Commodity Prices,
2007-2010 — 44 BMI Methodology — 45
How We Generate Our Industry Forecasts — 45 Cross
Checks — 45
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