VOL. XXXIII

NO. 23

12-MARCH-1990

Iraq

French Companies Win $800mn Aluminum Smelter Contract

The Aluminum Smelter Commission (ASC) of the Iraqi Ministry of Industry hasawarded the management contract for the construction of a new aluminum smelterplant to the French construction group Spie Batignolles and the metallurgicalengineering company Sofresid. The $800mn project, which will be built atNasiriya in southern Iraq and will have an annual capacity of 215,000 tons, willinclude an anode plant, one...