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Umm al-Quwain To Sell its Projected Aluminium Output on Long-Term Basis

The newly-formed Umm al-Quwain Aluminium Company Umalco (MEES, 30 June) has secured contracts to sell Chinese companies some 65% of the output of its projected joint venture 120,000 ton/year aluminium smelter which is scheduled to start up in 1989, according to the project's director, Shaikh Nasir ibn Rashid al-Mu'alla. The two Chinese companies - China National Metals and Minerals Export and Import and...