SUAL Plans to Start Construction of Aluminum Plant in Kazakhstan

MOSCOW, December 15. /FIS/. 'SUAL' Group is planning to start the construction of a USD1.5 Billion aluminum plant in Kazakhstan (Ekibastuz).
  
First Vice President on Business Development of 'SUAL-Holding' OJSC Artyom Volynets noted that the feasibility study is to be completed in 2007 and if its conclusions are positive the plant construction is to begin in 2008.
  
The plant is to start making aluminum in 2010 and will reach its full production capacity of 500 thousand tons per annum in 2011.