VOL. XLIV

No 48

26-November-2001

QATAR

PrivateSector To Build Aluminium Smelter

Qatar痴United Development Company (UDC), which is a public shareholding company,together with Ferrostaal of Germany and Japan痴 JGC Corporation on 11 Octobersigned an agreement to jointly develop and implement an aluminium smelterproject in Qatar. The plant, the first major gas-based industrial project to beowned by the private sector in Qatar, will have an initial capacity of some500,000 tons/year. The smelter will...