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Ausmelt designs and supplies Top Submerged Lance (TSL) Smelting Technology, a high-intensity bath smelting technique with wide application in the non-ferrous, ferrous, and precious metals industries. Ausmelt has commercialised this technology globally with many applications for copper, lead, zinc, nickel and PGM concentrates and waste materials.

 

Ausmelt Limited is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

 

Ausmelt is also expanding its non ferrous TSL business, Ausmelt also continues to expand its services & technologies to meet its mission of providing technology solutions across the metals production process chain. These technologies include ferrous TSL technology and mining flotation chemicals.

    
2006 MILESTONES
       
 
Contract signing for Yunnan Tin Corp. Lead Project in China (August 2006)
 
 
  Contract signed with YTCL (China) for lead smelting plant
Second smelter design contract signed in CIS region
 
Equipment supply contract signed for secondary smelter with Japan's Dowa Mining
 
 
Contract signed for new copper smelter with Chifeng Jinjian Copper Group in Inner Mongolia
  Contract signed for new copper smelter with China's Huludao Metals Group
  License agreement contract signed with Korea Zinc for new zinc residue plant
  Contract signed for nickel smelter for China's second largest nickel producer
Jilin Nickel Group
  Achieved regular sales of pilot-scale quantities of AM2 flotation chemical to two mines
 

Twenty-nine commercial Ausmelt furnaces have been built. Eight projects are currently in design and construction stages. Ausmelt has implemented projects in over 10 countries, supplying technology to major companies in the metals industry, including Anglo American, Rio Tinto, Alcoa, Korea Zinc, Anglo Platinum, Vedanta, Metaleurop and Aditya Birla.

TSL technology is rapidly gaining status as the technology of choice in the copper, lead and tin sectors. It is anticipated that with the start-up of plants in 2006, TSL technology will have been installed in 50% of the non ferrous plants constructed since 1982.

Ausmelt provides TSL smelter technology supply packages that are engineered for individual client requirements. Ausmelt services include metallurgical process design, basic and engineering design, and core equipment supply. On-site inspections, plant commissioning and operator training are also provided. Ausmelt also conducts and contributes to feasibility studies, and can carry out pilot-scale testing if required to develop projects for clients.

 
   
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