DUSHANBE, July 5, 2010, Asia-Plus — The Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO) jointly with the Konibodom-based joint-stock company, Bodom, has developed the manufacture of special machines for cleaning electrolytic tanks, press release issued by TALCO today said.
“Two prototype machines have been manufactured in five months and works test has been successfully conducted,” said press release, “TALCO and Bodom now plan to arrange a large-scale production of these machines in the near future.
TALCO’s technological machine stock now includes more than 100 machines and all of them and spare parts for them have been delivered from abroad and considerable funds have been spent every year to renew the technological machine stock and maintain the technological machines.
The Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO) that runs the Tajik aluminum smelter (TadAZ) is Tajikistan”s chief industrial asset. The country has no native aluminum ore, so the raw material for the plant has to be imported. Construction of the plant proper began in 1972, and the first pouring of aluminum took place on March 31, 1975. On April 3, 2007, TadAZ was officially renamed to TALCO – Tajik Aluminum Company.
