Venezuela’s government started talks to acquire a 20 percent stake in state aluminum producer CVG Venalum from six Japanese companies, the Ministry of Basic Industries said today in a statement.
The government is seeking to buy the stake from Showa Denko KK, Kobe Steel ,Marubeni , Sumitomo Chemical, Mitsubishi Materials and Mitsubishi Aluminum, the ministry said.
State mining company Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, which is known as CVG, currently has an 80 percent stake in Venalum, according to its website.
Venezuela’s government expects to have a formal negotiating committee set up in August and aims to have an agreement in place within four months, the ministry said. Kobe Steel on May 23 said it reached an agreement to transfer all of its shares in Comsigua, a Venezuelan producer of hot briquetted iron that was nationalized in 2009, to CVG.
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