It also includes a cast house, hot and cold rolling mills and an extrusion shop.

Alro's products are sold throughout the European Union, in Italy, Greece, Austria and Hungary, as well as Turkey, the Balkan countries and the United States.

Alro is listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (ALR ticker) and has a market capitalisation of around US$2 billion.

In September 2005, Alro bought from Balli Group 67% of Alum a Romanian company based in Tulcea that produced 540,000 tonnes of alumina in 2006 for around US$ 9 million.

Vimetco NV, a Dutch company listed on the London Stock Exchange (Vico), owns 84% of Alro's shares.