 The Mozal smelter was officially opened in September 2000.It was the first major foreign investment in Mozambique and is the biggest private-sector project in the country.Originally commissioned as a 250 ktpa (250,000 ton per annum) smelter, Mozal was followed by an extension (Mozal II) in 2003-04, and it is now the largest aluminium producer in Mozambique and the second-largest in Africa having a total annual production of around 580,000 tons.