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Macromanagement of Metallurgical Industries - a Case Study, Sohn International Symposium on Advanced Processing of Metals and Materials, San Diego, California,
Robert Budd¹ ; Nexhmedin Lohja² ; Zef Lleshi³ ; Odeta Gliozheni⁴ ; Edward Z. O'Brien⁵ ; Florian Kongoli ⁶ ;
¹FLOGEN Technologies Inc 3422 Old Capitol Trail, #791, Wilmington, DE, USA 19808
²Faculty of Mechanic Engineering, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
³General Directorate of Mines, Ministry of Industry and Energy, Tirana, Albania
⁴Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana, Albania.
⁵FLOGEN Technologies Inc 3422 Old Capitol Trail, #791, Wilmington, DE, USA 19808
⁶FLOGEN Technologies Inc,1255 Laird Blvd., Ste.388, Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada

Keywords: Macromanagement, metallurgy, plants, feasibility, foreign expert companies, private companies, miner

ABSTRACT

Macro management of metallurgical industries becomes an important issue in certain situations especially when some government owned metallurgical industries are on the verge or have stopped being feasible. In these cases a government lead macro management in collaboration with domestic institutions and foreign scientific and management expert companies is decisive in order to steer them to a profitable path. This process is not necessary an easy one and incorporates many unknowns and various alternatives. In this paper the macromanagement of the metallurgical industries in Albania will be described as a particular case along with a survey of its mineral deposits, metallurgical facilities and various perspectives for future development. As a country with many mineral resources, the exploration, research, exploitation and processing work of mineral ores before 1990 constituted an important activity of its economy, especially in the exportation of various products of this industry. Since 1990 this activity slowed downs considerably for various reasons and this prompted the necessity of a government lead macromanagement in collaboration with domestic institution and foreign expert companies. This process aims at improving and renewing the technologies in the metallurgical industry in order to transform it into a feasible branch of economy. This goal is being implemented among others through proper geological surveys, rehabilitating and renewing the existing facilities through domestic and foreign investments, the transformation of the ownership or the management from state-owned to local or foreign private companies, etc. Priority is given to the raising of the processing range of the traditional minerals such as chromium, copper, nickel-iron etc. as well as developing new perspective technologies to treat new mineral deposits.

Cite this article as:
Robert Budd, Nexhmedin Lohja, Zef Lleshi, Odeta Gliozheni, Edward Z. O'Brien, Florian Kongoli (2006). Macromanagement of Metallurgical Industries - a Case Study. Sohn International Symposium on Advanced Processing of Metals and Materials, San Diego, California. Montreal, Canada: FLOGEN Star Outreach

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