Mark Roggensinger

Mark Roggensinger

Manager, Market Analysis Commercial, Bauxite & Alumina, Hydro Aluminium International SA

Mark Roggensinger, of Swiss nationality, is Manager Market Analysis for Commercial, Bauxite and Alumina at Hydro Switzerland. With its recent acquisition of Sapa, Norsk Hydro is now the world leading company of Alumina worldwide with 35’000 employees.

Mark graduated in 1998 from the Geneva University in Switzerland with a Master of Science and Mineralogy. He started his career as a mine geologist in South Africa, and after 2 years he became a mining analyst for well-known companies.

Mark Roggensinger moved then to Merryl Lynch with a role as Vice-President of Metal & Mining Equity research analyst in South Africa and the US.

Back to Switzerland in 2003, he joined the UBS bank as Executive Director, Emerging Markets Equity Research before starting at Hydro in 2014.

With more than 30 years of experience in the commodities market analysis, Mark Roggensinger has a strategic vision for developments worldwide which he will share with you.

Panelist: SESSION: Alumina and Bauxite
Green or not Green: How long before the whole world is producing green alumina? What is the supply and demand in the meantime?

All Sessions by Mark Roggensinger

8:40 am - 9:20 am

Alumina and Bauxite | Green or not Green: How long before the whole world is producing green alumina? What is the supply and demand in the meantime?

  • The prospects for bauxite in Indonesia and Guinea is becoming more and more complicated. Where is the future of Alumina investments? Chinese companies along with Alcoa, Rio Tinto, EGA, Ma'aden, etc. have bauxite resources in Guinea.
  • Will there be new investments to build refineries in Guinea? How will alumina plants respond to government demands? What changes will happen to the pattern of global bauxite resources in the future?