Director of the Chamber of Metallurgical Industries: aluminum factory fire will not affect the ability of productivity

Engineer Mohamed Hanafi, director of Chamber of Metallurgical Industries Federation of Egyptian Industries, said the fire which broke out today, "Wednesday", in a factory aluminum Nag Hammadi will not affect the ability of productivity and performance, denying reports that indicate that the fire would lead to the collapse of the plant, and production ceased its fully .
Hanafi said: The factory production may hang for three or four days, while importing pulp poles Blocks produced by carbon building blocks that fire broke out from the outside.
He explained that the import pasta from abroad will increase the cost of the plant, which is already since the beginning of the year many of the problems that have increased its losses from strikes categorical, then increase the price of electricity, and to access multiple interruptions of electricity, and finally a fire today.
Hanafi said: The power outage for one hour a day cause losses of up to 650 thousand pounds of aluminum, which is the most affected, as dependent on electrical power mainly, explaining that the loss of factory Misr Aluminum exceeded 25 pounds; due to power outages.
And anticipated the possibility that the fire may be caused by multiple interruptions of electricity, pointing to reports fingers went to electricity.
Noteworthy that the poles pulp blocks used in the analysis of the electricity for aluminum cells, which is the most important stage of the production, and is the basis of this industry.