OREANDA-NEWS. April 16, 2014. Bahrain and Kazakhstan has signed an agreement on cooperation in aluminium processing. The signing ceremony took place at the business forum "Kazakhstan- Bahrain strategic partnership" in Astana.

As Deputy Prime Minister of Industry and New Technologies Asset Issekeshev noted in his welcoming speech Bahrain processes more than 800 tons of aluminium. "Kazakhstan has large reserves of aluminium and produces 250 thousand tons, and our country has the potential to produce 500 million tons," he said.

"We process just over 25 tons of aluminium so far. Pavlodar is ready to create a special sub-zone on aluminium processing," A.Issekeshev stressed.