Tajik Aluminum Company intends to increase aluminum output to 1 million tons per year.
For this in 2018 it will start constructing a new aluminum plant and will completely modernize the existing one.
The new plant will be constructed by Yunnan.
The Chinese company has already prepared the feasibility study and is developing the design. The capacity of the plant will be 503 thousand tons of primary aluminum per year. It will have a foundry (800 thousand tons per year) and anode manufacture (300 thousand tons).
“There are only 3 such advanced plants in the world. All of them have been constructed in China this year”, TALCO notes.
The construction of the plant estimated at $1.6 billion will take 18 months.
The new plant will create 1.1 thousand jobs.
The existing plant’s capacity is 517 thousand tons of aluminum per year. In 2016 TALCO started replacing electrolysis baths there. So far some 90% of the baths have been replaced. The company is able to commission 98 baths more. But they will be assembled in February 2018.
In January-September TALCO produced 76 thousand tons of primary aluminum, down by 27 thousand tons YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
