Chinese investors plan to build two alumina plants in Kazakhstan’s Kostanay region. The first plant is expected to have a capacity of up to 1 million tons per year. The project cost is 263.9 billion tenge ($0.554 billion). Production is scheduled to begin in 2028. The second plant is expected to have a capacity of…
Transportation of imported alumina via the Far Eastern Railroad in 2019 will grow by 30.5% YoY, to 300 thousand tons. The cargo is transported to Rusal aluminum plants in Siberia. Previously alumina was transported via the Vanino port. Alumina transportation contributed a lot to an increase in the railroad overall transportation, which grew by 15%.…
Tajikistan needs some $500 thousand to complete the prospecting works at the Kurgovad deposit. The deposit has large resources of alumina, the main raw material for the manufacture of aluminum. The project aims among other thing at “solving current economic and social issues of development of Tajikistan, mastering the manufacture of competitive products to replace…
An alternative route has been established for the supply of raw materials from Azerbaijan to Tajikistan for the needs of the Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO), the Tajik Embassy in Azerbaijan reported. This route implies deliveries from Azerbaijan through Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to Tajikistan bypassing Turkmenistan. The transit through Turkmenistan has recently been closed, and…
Iran has exported alumina to Azerbaijan for the first time, Touraj Zare, managing director of Iran Alumina Company, said. Previously, Tajikistan was the only costumer of Iran’s alumina, but beginning from the current fiscal year (March 2017) Azerbaijan also has started the imports, Zare said, the press office of Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development…