Brazil Vale Completes Alumina Partnership With Dubal
28 April 2009 - 8:24AM
Dow Jones News
Brazilian mining titan Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO) said
late Monday that it had finalized an alumina refinery joint venture
with Dubai Aluminium Co., or Dubal.
Dubal purchased a 19% stake in Companhia de Alumina do Para, or
CAP, for an undisclosed sum. The deal was first announced April
14.
Vale will hold a 61% stake in CAP, while Norway's Norsk Hydro
ASA (NHYDY) will have the remaining 20% stake.
Dubal is one of the world's largest aluminum smelters, Vale
said.
CAP will start up an aluminum refinery at Barbacena, Para State,
in late 2012, just five kilometers from Vale's Alunorte refining
subsidiary. The refinery will have initial output of 1.86 million
metric tons of alumina a year.
-By Jeff Fick, Dow Jones Newswires; 55-21-2586-6085;
jeff.fick@dowjones.com