METKA S.A. announces that it has qualified to participate in the final stage of the tender procedure for the award of a contract for construction of a Combined Heat and Power plant in Romania. The awarding authority is Alro, the Romania-based alumina and aluminium producer and member of the Vimetco Group.

The project involves the design, equipment procurement, installation and commissioning of a Cogeneration plant with 250 MW of power output and 195 MW of thermal output (similar to the Cogeneration plant of ALUMINIUM S.A., which METKA completed successfully in 2009), in Alro's bauxite processing and alumina production facilities in Tulcea.

This plant will supply thermal energy to the alumina refinery and electricity to the region of Southeast Romania.

In addition to METKA, the other candidates that also qualified to participate in the final stage of the tender procedure are the Itochu-Huyndai Consortium and Siemens. The candidates that were excluded from further participation were China Huadian Engineering, China National Electric Engineering, Minmetals Engineering of China and Sinohydro. According to Vimetco, the result of the tender procedure is expected to be announced in late May.

The Company will issue a further announcement to inform the investing public in the event of a successful outcome.

METKA in brief

METKA is a leading EPC Contractor active in the turnkey delivery of specialised, large-scale energy projects in Southeastern Europe and beyond, undertaking the full range of activities from Design and Procurement through to Construction and completion. The Company is currently carrying out simultaneously projects totalling 5,000 MW of installed capacity in 7 countries (Greece, Turkey, Syria, Romania, Pakistan, Iraq and Algeria).

For more details, please contact:

Mrs Katerina Mouzouraki, MYTILINEOS Group Press & Media Relations Supervisor (Tel.: 210-6877484, Fax: 210-6877400, e-mail: Katerina.Mouzouraki@mytilineos.gr).