VOL. XXXII

NO. 31

8-MAY-1989

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi New Smelter to Process Australian Alumina

Alujain Corporation Saudi Arabia - the joint venture which is to build by thesecond half of 1992 a 220,000 ton/year aluminium smelter at Yanbu' - on 13 Aprilsigned a 10-year contract with an Australian company to import annually 1mn tonsof alumina starting in 1992, representing a quarter of the smelter's feedstock.Construction of the Yanbu' project is scheduled to start early next year (MEES,20 February).