(Ecofin Agency) - French company Alteo expects its bauxite mine project in Guinea to create around 800 direct jobs. These include positions for qualified engineers and technicians.

The Guinean Ministries of Higher Education and Technical Education and Altea Alumina, a French alumina producer, recently partnered to create an alumina training school in Conakry. The related agreement was inked on June 24. 

"The main objective of this partnership is to train a highly qualified workforce to support the national bauxite valorization strategy, which is necessary to foster a local processing industry for this mineral", noted the Ministry of Higher Education.

Under the agreement, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is a technical partner.

The upcoming school is associated with a bauxite-to-alumina refinery project that Altea Alumina presented to Guinea’s government last March. The refinery will be built in the Boké region and should create almost 800 direct jobs. 

The school will train local technicians and engineers who can work at the refinery.

Vanessa Ngono Atangana