ALSTOM wins orders worth 200 million euros at Dubai aluminium smelter

The contracts were signed yesterday by ALSTOM Chairman and CEO
Patrick Kron, Mohamed Al-Gureir DUBAL Managing Director and
Abdullah Kalman DUBAL CEO, at an official ceremony held in
Dubai.

DUBAL is extending two of its nine aluminium smelting potlines
at its plant, located in the south of the Emirate, and
consequently needs more power for the production process.

ALSTOM will carry out the engineering, supply, building and
commissioning of the new power plant, including the supply of two
ALSTOMs GT13E2 gas turbines, three generators, steam
turbine, heat recovery steam generator, digital control system
and balance of plant.

ALSTOM will also supply two fume treatment centres for the
extension of the two potlines which will significantly decrease
the fluoride and particulate emissions produced in the aluminium
production process.

The power plant will begin delivering power as early as
January 2007 with project completion scheduled for December
2007.

Philippe Joubert, President of ALSTOMs Power
Turbo-Systems/Power Environment Sector, said: The GT13E2
is proving itself to be the flexible, powerful solution required
for power production for aluminium smelting. We are strong
players in the aluminium market because of two factors: this
technology and our plant integrator capability. This contract
represents a significant development in the business relationship
between our two companies.

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ALSTOM has, over the past three years, won several contracts
to build turnkey power plants for the three aluminium producers
in the Middle East, namely Aluminium Bahrain, Sohar Aluminium
Company and DUBAL.

In 2003, ALSTOM won a contract with Aluminium Bahrain 
(ALBA) for a 650 MW 2X GT13 gas-fired combined cycle power
station as part of an expansion project for its aluminium smelter
plant. This followed two earlier contracts in 1990 and 1995 for
two gas-fired power stations. In 2005, ALSTOM won a repeat gas
turbine upgrade order for its gas-fired, combined-cycle power
plant at Manama, Bahrain

In 2004, ALSTOM won a contract with Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) to
upgrade and extend an existing gas-fired power station to cater
for an increase in aluminium.

At the end of 2005, ALSTOM won a contract from Sohar Aluminium
Company for the turnkey construction and long-term maintenance of
a 1000 MW 4X GT13 gas-fired combined cycle power plant in
Oman.

ALSTOM is also a world leader in environmental control systems
and has supplied several fume treatment systems to control
emissions from aluminium smelters owned by ALBA and DUBAL.

ALSTOM also won a contract in 2005 in Argentina with aluminium
producer Aluar for the turnkey construction of a 465 MW 2X GT13
gas-fired combined cycle power station.

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