SHANGHAI, Nov 12 (Reuters) - China's exports of prebakedcarbon anode, a component used in aluminium production, arelikely to rise about 15 percent in 2008 from an expected 700,000tonnes in 2007, an executive of a leading Chinese supplier saidon Monday.

"Chinese prebaked carbon anode makers have been receivingmore orders from overseas aluminium smelters to supply theirexpanded facilities," said Lang Guanghui, board chairman ofSunstone International Industry and Trade Co Ltd.

"International smelters are facing more obstacles, such asenvironmental barriers, to building more carbon anode plants fortheir own use," said Lang, whose company expects to export170,000 tonnes in 2007, mainly to Alcoa (AA.N: Quote, Profile, Research).

In response to rising production costs, major smelters havebeen moving some of their raw material processing operations toChina, to take advantage of lower labour costs and less stringentenviro...

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