The Tajik Aluminium Company ( tg, Ширкати Алюминийи Тоҷик; russian: Таджикская алюминиевая компания), abbreviated as TALCO (
Tajik/
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: ТАЛКО) headquartered in
Tursunzoda
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
, runs the largest aluminium manufacturing plant in Central Asia, and is Tajikistan's chief industrial asset. The President of Tajikistan,
Emomalii Rahmon
Emomali Rahmon (; born Emomali Sharipovich Rahmonov, tg, Эмомалӣ Шарӣпович Раҳмонов, script=Latn, italic=no, Emomalī Sharīpovich Rahmonov; ; born 5 October 1952) has been the 3rd President of Tajikistan since 16 Novem ...
, personally oversees TALCO and according to ''
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'', "Each year, TALCO produces hundreds of millions of dollars in profits that are routed to a
shell company in the
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". According to a leaked cable written by the US ambassador in Tajikistan, this shell company is controlled by
Emomali Rahmon
Emomali Rahmon (; born Emomali Sharipovich Rahmonov, tg, Эмомалӣ Шарӣпович Раҳмонов, script=Latn, italic=no, Emomalī Sharīpovich Rahmonov; ; born 5 October 1952) has been the 3rd President of Tajikistan since 16 Novem ...
.
Tajikistan has no native aluminium ore, so the raw material for the plant must be imported. Construction of the plant proper began in 1972, and the first pouring of aluminium took place on 31 March 1975.
Tajik news agenc
AVESTA
that the plant produced a total of 416 thousand tonnes of aluminium in 2006. In 2012, TALCO is sticking to its plan to produce 332,500 tonnes of primary aluminium, which would restore production approximately to 2010 levels after a 20% decline to 277,584 tonnes in 2011.
TALCO consumes roughly 40% of the country's electrical power,
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Aluminium companies of Tajikistan
Mining in Tajikistan
Metal companies of the Soviet Union