| Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspected an alumina facility at Basel Cements Pikalyovo Alumina Refinery.Part 3 4 June 2009 Председатель Правительства Российской Федерации В.В.Путин провел совещание по вопросу "О ситуации на предприятиях г. Пикалево Бокситогорского района Ленинградской области". 04.06.2009 После совещания, на котором обсуждалась ситуация на предприятиях Пикалево, Председатель Правительства России В.В.Путин пообщался с жителями города. Премьер кратко рассказал им об итогах совещания Vladimir Putin: You were offered, you say? Who made such an offer? Filaret Galchev: The head of Basic Element made an offer to our manager. We turned it down, and raw material supply problems started soon after that-as early as the beginning of 2008. I have preserved the correspondence on the controversy. We have won two or three cases on this dispute. Supplies to our company stopped abruptly in August, without any explanation, under the pretext that cement production was re-profiled. We started to upgrade the plant-what else could we do? We quickly drew up a relevant contract, and made blueprints. We have spent 800 million roubles so far-in particular, to build a quarry. We have opened up raw material reserves-we have 500000 tonnes. Equipment will be brought in in June, and it will be fully assembled by September. The plant will be able to work independently by mid-September. We have decided to bring clinker brick from our other plants, and so retain at least a part of the ... |
