Romania
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Alro is Romania’s only aluminium producer and is also the largest primary aluminium production facility in Central and Eastern Europe (excluding CIS) by volume. Alro’s focus is on the manufacture of primary added-value products. Facilities include a smelting plant in Slatina, which produced 288,000 tonnes of cast products and 35,000 tonnes of processed products in 2008. They also operate Alum, an alumina refinery in Tulcea, for which production was been temporarily suspended in February 2007 to carry out modernization. Romania is a location that offers several essential advantages; proximity to customers, especially those in Western Europe; a guaranteed, competitively priced energy supply through end of January 2013; and relatively low labour costs within the EU; and a low tax environment. |
China
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Vimetco is among the top ten producers in China by volume and mainly supplies the rapidly burgeoning demand for aluminium in China. Advantages in China include time to- market, proximity to customers and low transportation costs. A new cast house has been commissioned in May 2009 with a production capacity of 100,000 tpa for each slabs, billets and wire rod. The plants feature integrated power generation, making the Chinese operations fully self-sufficient. Vimetco’s Chinese holdings, include two smelting plants in Gongyi, with a combined capacity of 550,000 tpa, as well as processing facilities in Zhengzhou, which in 2008 produced 56,000 tonnes in processed products. Rounding off Vimetco’s China operations is a smelter in Linzhou, with a capacity of 110,000 tpa and casting facilities with capacities of 30,000 tpa in wire rod and 30,000 tpa in billets. |
Sierra Leone
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In July 2008 Vimetco acquired a bauxite mine in Sierra Leone. The mine contains a resource base of approximately 31 million tonnes of bauxite and currently produces around 1.2 million tonnes per annum. |
