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Company · Elbasan County

Kurum International

The Turkish group that took over the Elbasan steel complex and several hydropower assets.

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Steel and energy
Headquarters
Elbasan
Founded
1999
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Kurum International is a Turkish company that bought Albania's big steel works at Elbasan after the communist system ended, and also runs some hydropower plants.

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Kurum International is a Turkish company that bought Albania's big steel works at Elbasan after the communist system ended, and also runs some hydropower plants.

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Elbasan

A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.

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Electricity almost entirely from hydropower — which makes supply depend on rainfall.

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An upper-middle-income economy of roughly $30 billion, led by services and tourism, with remittances and construction close…

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