Earlier this April, Algerian Industry Minister M. Bacha, during a visit to the Berrahal industrial zone, announced the continuation of the production center that began in 2017 the ETRHB company of corruption convict Ali Haddad, on land of more than 130 ha., now mortgaged by court order, and with significant public aid. Work was halted in 2019 when «the project was at 75% progress.» and the teams are piled in the port of Annaba for two years in serious process of deterioration. Hence the minister stated that «it is up to the state to find the best formula for its relaunch.»

Contacts have been initiated with project partners, with budgeted completion costs of USD 400 million, which would generate 2,000 jobs to produce 850,000 tons of concrete steel per year.

This production would add to that of the Bellara steel complex, the public economic company AQS (argelo-quatarí), launched in February this year with a work force of 1,500 workers and a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year. Another steel plant is the Turkish-Algerian Tosyali Algérie in Oran, with a staff of 4,000 employees who started operating in 2013, with the ambition «to cover 70% of the needs of the Algerian market».

Algeria also has the public steel complex of El Hadjar, which has a workforce of 4,500 workers, this plant, which entered production at 1,969, has a production capacity of 4 million tons, but never reached 1.5 and in recent years only 600 tons. With irregular operation from years ago, it is a real sinkhole of public money and a constant focus of labor conflict, which does not seem to discourage Mr. Minister of Industry.

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