Home GCC Bahrain Bahrain’s Alba Gets Loans To Pay Off $169m Bond Maturing In 2013 Alba received a five-year $85 million loan from Bahrain’s Gulf International Bank and a three-year loan from a group of banks. by Reuters January 6, 2013 Aluminium Bahrain, or Alba, which owns the world’s fourth-largest aluminium smelter, said on Sunday it received two loans from banks to refinance a $169 million bond maturing in March 2013. Alba, 69 per cent owned by Bahraini sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat and 20 per cent by the Saudi government, said it obtained a five-year $85 million loan from Bahrain’s Gulf International Bank according to a statement on the Bahrain bourse. The company also received a three-year $84 million loan from a group of banks including Ahli United Bank, National Bank of Bahrain, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd, Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait and Arab Banking Corporation. Alba earlier in December said it had hired Bechtel Canada to conduct a feasibility study for its proposed $2.5 billion expansion plan to add a sixth production line. The new line – which will add 400,000 tonnes annual capacity to its current production of 881,000 tonnes a year – could be completed by early 2015. 0 Comments
