VOL. XXXV

NO. 8

25-NOVEMBER-1991

Egypt

French Firms Awarded Contract for Aluminum Mill

Under a contract signed on 4 November, the French firm Clecim was awarded acontract worth about FF1,300mn ($237.5mn) to build an aluminum rolling mill forthe Aluminum Company of Egypt at its Naga Hammadi complex on the Nile in UpperEgypt. The technology for the plant will be provided by another French firm,Pechiney. The total cost of the project is estimated at E900mn ($270.3mn), ofwhich the local cost element...