Astra Resources has reconfirmed its commitment to pursuing industry innovations to spearhead its global expansion plans. The company has already acquired, and is in the process of acquiring, several ‘industry changing’ technologies, including the revolutionary T-Steel, coal conversion and carbon capture and sequestration projects amongst others, which it sees will help drive the advancement of developing countries. Astra CEO Dr Jaydeep Biswas says it will be technology rather than fixed assets which will determine competition and products into the future. “If you look at the major countries around the world it’s only Russia and Brazil that both produce their own minerals and consume them on a major scale,” Biswas says. (more…)
