Kazchrome is the world's single largest chrome ore miner, operating a 600 000 tonne per year pellet plant in the town of Khromtau, in the northwestern Kazakh region of Aktobe.
A new plant, expected to be running at full capacity by the end of 2009, will add to production, and supply most of its pellets to Kazchrome's ferro-alloy smelters in Aksu and Aktobe. Kazchrome posted a net profit of $266-million in 2006. Annual production of ferro-chrome, used to make stainless and special steels, is more than 1-million tonnes. The company is one of the main assets of ENRC, a mining and metals group that accounts for about 5% of Kazakhstan's gross domestic product and has annual sales of over $3-billion.The group also controls Aluminium of Kazakhstan, Zhairem GOK and the Sokolov-Sarbai Mining and Production Union, the main supplier of iron ore to Russia's Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
Shareholders include the Kazakh government and copper miner Kazakhmys Plc.

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