Uploaded on 2017-12-27 by jonas van poucke

Building materials: - Aluminium: mostly produced by the mineral Bauxiet. The top tree minning countries are Australia, china and Brazil - Glass: one of the raw materials is sand and can be found in Belgium. But it is for manufactures (Belgium, France, etc.) economically beter to import it from countries as india, Sierra Leone, etc. Mostly the manufacters export the glass to low-wage countries, where they make the windows to return back to Belgium for construction. - Bricks: They produce bricks in Belgium and the raw material can be found to in Belgium. - HPL: consist of paper/wood pulp and resin with a top layer of melamine. Melamine is mostly produced in China.