Every year, we post news, gossip and observations from around the traps at TMS, the world’s largest gathering of aluminium and raw materials companies.

So let’s get underway immediately. Here is a snap from Beijing Airport. Liu Tao, President of Sinoway Carbon, and owner of the newest calciner to enter the market, and Mohan Handalkar, who heads up Goa Carbon’s project to build a calciner in competition to Sinoway Carbon. They, and we, were boarding the flight for the long, long, long haul to San Antonio.