Maksiprom-Invest LLC operates the project of producing the manganese concentrate from waists of basic production of two leading Ukrainian mining plants, located respectively in Ordzhonikidze city and Manganese city, Dnipropetrovs&＃039;k region. Maksiprom-Invest LLC was not created as a competitor to PrivatIntertrading CJSC, both companies are independent and operate in parallel. We are glad to inform you, that we have successfully performed the first stage of this large industrial project � first enriching factory in a line is build and production of manganese concentrate has already been started. Since March 2012 the factory will monthly produce manganese concentrate in volumes, equal to 7 400 tons of pure metallic Mn. When the project is running at full capacity in 2013, the overall annual production of manganese concentrate will be equal to 250 000 tons of pure metallic Mn.