VOL. XXXVI

NO. 10

7-DECEMBER-1992

BAHRAIN

Alba Completes Expansion Program

Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) has completed the $1.5bn expansion program it beganin 1989. The smelter is now one of the largest in the world with an annualcapacity of 460,000 metric tons. The expansion program included the upgrading ofexisting facilities and the construction of a new pot- line, one kilometre inlength and containing 288 pots. It also included the construction of an 800MWcombined-cycle power station costing...