Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 5 SWOT
Analysis — 6 United Kingdom Political
SWOT — 6 United Kingdom Economic
SWOT — 6 Global Metals Market
Overview — 7 Table: World’s Top 10 Steel Producing
Countries, 2007 And 2008 — 9 Aluminium
Outlook — 10 Table: Aluminium
Forecasts — 10 Table: Global Primary Smelter Aluminium
Production, 2008-2010 (000 tonnes) — 11 Metals Price
Outlook — 13 Table: Stock Levels At London Metals Exchange
Warehouses (tonnes) — 16 Global Mining
Outlook — 16 Table: Biggest Chinese Acquisitions In
Australia Since 2005 — 18 Table: Global Mining – Top
Five Companies By Market Capitalisation (US$mn) — 20
Table: Global Mining – Key Players’ Future Investment Plans
(selected projects) — 21 Regional
Overview — 23 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 26 Table: Metals Industry,
2006-2013 — 27 Macroeconomic
Outlook — 27 Table: United Kingdom – Economic
Outlook, 2008-2012 — 31 Competitive
Landscape — 32 Aluminium — 32
Steel — 33 Corus — 36 Rio Tinto
Alcan — 37 Global Assumptions — 38
Table: Global Assumptions, 2007-2013 — 38 Table: Developed
States GDP Growth, 2008-2010 — 40 Table: Emerging Markets
GDP Growth, 2008-2010 — 41 BMI Forecast
Modelling — 42 How We Generate Our Industry
Forecasts — 42 Cross Checks — 42
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