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Participation in regional seminars and exhibitions

At the end of October, Asturiana de Zinc participated in an environmental exhibition (EXPOAMBIENTE 2003), Avilés organised by the Regional Environmental Authority, the Avilés City Council and the local Chamber of Commerce. During five days, several hundred people including many students, visited the stand and were informed about Xstrata Zinc’s environmental performance and the uses of zinc in fields such as medicine and pharmacology. Xstrata Zinc also participated in the seminar ‘Trends of the Chemical and Process Industry’, organised by the Association of Chemical and Process Industries of Asturias, the Institute for the Economic Development of Asturias and the University of Oviedo. Xstrata Zinc’s Environmental Coordinator, Jose Poncet, spoke on ‘Trends of the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry’, covering subjects such as the marketing of metals and the financial consequences of the new environmental legislation, e.g. the Kyoto Protocol. The audience consisted mainly of university students and lecturers as well as technicians and economists from the chemical and metallurgical industries.