KYIV, Oct 25 - The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) intends to put up 68.01% of PJSC Zaporizhia Aluminum Combine (ZAlK) on sale in early 2018.

According to a press release of the SPF, with reference to head of the agency Vitaliy Trubarov, ZAlK sale is scheduled for the first months of 2018.

Previously the plant was the only primary aluminum producer in Ukraine.

The owner of ZAlK in 2004 became Russian Group SUAL. In 2007 the plant went under the control of RUSAL, created from the merger of the aluminum and alumina assets of OAO RUSAL, SUAL and the Swiss trader Glencore.