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PECHINEY SAYS HOSTILE BID WILL NOT AFFECT POSSIBLE PLANS IN RUSSIA

Pechiney said the hostile (euro)3.4bn ($3.9bn) takeover bid from Alcan would not
upset its plans to possibly invest in the proposed Komi aluminium project in
Russia with Sual, the Russian metals group, writes Kevin Morrison in London.

"It's business as usual," Pechiney said. Pechiney and Sual, which is the world's
seventh-largest aluminium group and controlled by Victor Vekselberg, have been
in talks with a view Pechiney taking up to 40 per cent of the $2bn Komi project
in northern Russia.

Sual said even if Pechiney withdrew from the project, it had other funding
options.

"We are in talks with other potential partners from the industry," Bill Spears,
head of investor relations, said.

Sual would not identify potential partners, but the aluminium sector is
dominated by only a handful of miners. Excluding Pechiney and Alcan, it leaves
few possibilities. Alcoa is the largest aluminium producer, followed by Rusal,
controlled by Roman Abramovich, who last week bought London's Chelsea football
club.

Other significant producers are Norsk Hydro, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
Glencore, the Switzerland-based commodities trader, also has significant
interests in alumina.

The proposed Komi project would see production of bauxite rise to 6.5m tonnes
from 1m at present, plus a new 1.4m tonne-per-year alumina refinery and a
600,000 tonne-per-year aluminium smelter, designed to make it one of the world's
most advanced aluminium plants.

Komi forms a key part of Sual's diversification plan. Earlier this year it
formed Sual International, a vehicle to list outside Russia.

Fleming Family & Partners, the London-based private investment company, took a 5
per cent stake in Sual International in January with an option to increase it to
23 per cent. The privately owned Access Industries Eurasia also plans to take a
stake in Sual International and transfer its coal mine in Kazakhstan into the
enlarged group.