Category Archives: Alaverdi Copper Works

Armenia: plant workers block Yerevan-Tbilisi railway

Workers of the Alaverdi Copper Smelter blocked the railway leading from Armenia to Georgia on July 1. In late April, it became known that employees of the idle plant in the city of Alaverdi would get their salaries only by the end of June. Vallex group of companies that owned the plant, made the decision.…

Armenia: Alaverdi Copper Works asking for state help

The employees of the Alaverdi Copper Works have started striking demanding the government to allow it to increase sulfur dioxide emissions. Otherwise the fines, imposed by environment protection authorities, will make the company operation unprofitable. Earlier the State Inspection on Environment Protection has fined the works for 380 million drams ($700 thousand) for the serious…