IAI: New online tool

The International Aluminium Institute (IAI), the global association of aluminium producers, has launched a new web-based tool to visualise the aluminium value chain, from bauxite to scrap, including inter-regional trade flows. In a fast changing sector, which has seen new regions of production and consumption - led by China - grow at unprecedented rates in recent years, understanding inter-regional flows of raw materials and final products has never been more important. The IAI's mass flow visualisation, available at http://www.world-aluminium.org/statistics/massflow, allows users to manipulate an animated Sankey diagram, showing the production, consumption and trade of…