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  • Bayerische Landesbank allocating over $50 mln for Armenal overhaul

    Interfax
    Aug 17 2004

    Bayerische Landesbank allocating over $50 mln for Armenal overhaul

    Yerevan. (Interfax) - The German bank Bayerische Landesbank has
    agreed to provide more than $50 million in financing for a
    modernization program at Armenal aluminum foil plant in Armenia.

    Negotiations with German insurance company Hermes, which will cover
    the program should wrap up within a month, General Director at
    Russian Aluminum (RusAl) Alexander Livshits announced at a Monday
    press conference in Armenia.

    On top of the German bank's input, RusAl will itself be contributing
    $20 million as working capital, Livshits said. Of that, $1.5 million
    has already been spent on project preparations and readying the plant
    for modernization, he said.

    Armenal will get a factory for making aluminum foils with maximum
    thickness of 0.57mm.

    After the Armenal modernization work is completed, the plant will be
    put into operation in 2005, Livshits said.
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