Vietnam plans to build seven alumina processing plants by 2015

Vietnam plans to build seven alumina processing plants and a bauxite-aluminum processing plant by 2015. It is expected that the total alumina production capacity will be 8.4 million tons/year, and the aluminum hydroxide production capacity will be 650,000 tons/year. Prior to this, the Vietnamese government plans to invest in the mining and processing of bauxite in the central highlands by 2025.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung announced on November 7 that it plans to spend US$118-156 billion to build an alumina refinery. At least $47.5 million was spent on completing geological surveys, $9.97 billion to $13.7 billion was spent on construction, mining and processing plants, and $1.9 billion was spent on infrastructure.

It said that the company responsible for the development of the project will implement a shareholding system, and the Vietnamese government will be responsible for management.

The government also decided to build a 50,000-ton port in the central part of Binh Thuan Province to facilitate transportation in the central highlands and the southern region.

Central Highlands will use environmentally friendly technology to extract 5.5 billion tons of bauxite.