| | New Zeolite Type | | As the result of last year’s developments, our company has expanded its 4A type synthetic zeolite product group.
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| | New viscosity optimized hydrate product | | Our ALOLT 700 product group has been expanded with a new product type. The new ALOLT 716 aluminium-hydroxide can be widely applied as fire retardant filler material in artificial resins.
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| | CERAMITEC 2009 | | Please visit us at CERAMITEC 2009 trade fair A6 Hall Stand No. 336 in Munich between 20-23 October 2009
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| | REACH pre-registration | | MAL Hungarian Aluminium has pre-registered all substances from its production program according to REACH Regulation. All necessary activities for registration are in progress and will be finished in due time.
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| | MAL Hungarian Aluminum Ltd. acquired concession rights to conduct bauxite exploration and extraction operations in Montenegro | | The supply with bauxite of MAL’s alumina plant in Ajka is presently accomplished partly from domestic and Bosnian bauxite mines owned by MAL and partly from mines owned by Bosnian and Montenegrin companies. Due the exploited and limited volume of the economically extractable bauxite reserve in Hungary, Bosnia and Montenegro MAL paid particular attention to at the area Niksic in Montenegro where there is currently 350.000 tons of bauxite reserve and the experts expect further 2-4 million tons of bauxite.
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| | Further organisational change | | MAL changed its organisational structure at 1. January, 2007 in order to reduce the management levels and company sites furthermore to increase the efficiency of the divisional economy.
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| | Outsourcing of the IT services | | As from 1. November, 2006 the IT services of the Company - in the frame of the concentration to the core business - have been supplied by the outsourced RIS Informatical Service Ltd.
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| | Personal change | | The general meeting of the MAL Limited by Shares recalled Mr. Dr. Nándor Sillinger's assignment upon his request as Chief Executive Officer and elected Mr. Ferenc Sitkei as Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
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| | Information | | The Board of Directors of MAL Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company Limited by Shares has decided to close down the aluminium smelter operating at Inota at the beginning of next year.
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| | Organisational change at the MAL group | | MAL has independently obtained mining rights and will take over deep working bauxite production from Bakonyi Bauxitbánya Kft., which is in its majority ownership.
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| | MAL aquires bauxite mine in Bosnia | | On June 15, 2004 MAL Magyar Aluminium Producing and Trading Inc. obtained the 51% majority share of the Rudnici Boksita Jajce bauxite mine in the framework of the privatisation process in Bosnia.
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