,' i ; - ' : ' / ' '' iJ - y^Ofc<^4llW^<</ sometime in the next few hoursaluminium will enter your life Mealtime approaches. A pot simmers on the stove. In every home in New Zealand, throughout the year, sometime every day, this scene is repeated. Countless pots - probably aluminium. The foil our food is wrapped in. Our doors and windows, ranchsliders, sunscreens, awnings and railings, all more than likely made from aluminium produced by Comalco at the Tiwai ' , Point smelter in Southland. ••/£' Aluminium is produced in pots . Each pot produces about 1 tonne of aluminium a day. And Comalco’s 612 pots at Tiwai ...- Point supply virtually all of New Zealand’s aluminium requirements of around 50,000 tonnes a year. The smelter is one of the eight largest in the western world, with annual output of some 250,000 tonnes. Of this, about 200,000 tonnes is exported. Japan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, the U.S.A, Europe, all buy aluminium from New Zealand. Sometime, in the next few hours, when you see a pot on the • stove, give a thought to Comalco’s pots steaming away at the I' 1 t: .. Tiwai Point smelter, producing aluminium for New Zealand and the world. @ COMALCO is aluminium ‘ US’ ■'■-■ ■ " ' '- ' ' </'' ''' , ‘"- — wk >i ■ —irm' /■ - <• -sc ? , r ? ''' ' ' '** * 1 f COMALC (5 SERVICE CENTRES AT AUCKLAND 477 GREAT sbuTH RD - TAURANGA 7 CYPRESS ST.- WELLINGTON 33-43 JACKSON ST. PETONE- CHRISTCHURCH 26 MOORrfOUSE AVE.
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Press, 30 September 1986, Page 5
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