Panorama of Nikolaev Alumina Refinery

The UNIAN Archive. The panorama of Milolaev-based Alumina Factory (MAF), the first-rate supplier of the raw materials for the aluminum production in the CIS countries. The planned production capacity makes up 1 million tons of alumina per year. The plant was built in 1980 for raw materials supplying to the Siberian aluminum producing factories. According to the Western experts' data, the MAF price makes up $1 billion. Today 55% of the factory shares are the privacy of the State. For several years the Transnational Corporation 'Trans World Group' pretends to control the MAF, though the Corporation has been already controlling the Aluminium Complex of the Country. From November of 1998 the Security Service of Ukraine has been considering the case on the accusation of the the factory top-management, in particular, the General Director Vitaly Meshin, in Alumina contraband and illegal opening of currency accounts with the abroad banks. Photo by Andrey Mosienko/ UNIAN