Mozal Aluminium Smelter
Mozambique's largest industrial exporter, converting imported alumina into primary aluminium using hydro-based electricity.
Key data
- Location
- Beluluane, Maputo Province
- Stage
- Operating
- Status
- Operating; long-term electricity supply is the critical variable
- Capacity
- Approx. 580,000 tonnes per annum aluminium
- CAPEX
- Pending verification
- Timeline
- Operating since 2000
- Owner
- South32
- Partners
- Pending verification
- Commodities
- Aluminium
- Value chain
- Bauxite → Alumina → Aluminium
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Mozal Aluminium
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