OREANDA-NEWS. August 22, 2007. Uralkali (Berezniki, Perm Territory) has issued a reports about its financial results for 2Q 2007 in compliance with RAS. A copy of this report is available on the Russian version of the Uralkali's website: http://www.uralkali.com/ru/
According to disclosed documents the company's turnover in the first 6 month of 2007 exceeded 10,996 billion rubles (compared to 7,754 billion rubles in the first half of 2006). The net profits for the same period were over 2,912 billion rubles (compared to 2 billion rubles in the first half of 2006).

Vladislav Baumgertner, General Director of Uralkali stated:

-The results of the first half of 2007 show the stable financial growth of the Company. Since the beginning of the year, Uralkali has been increasing its production of potassium chloride, which is its main product. To date, we have produced over 2,5 million tones of potassium chloride, which represents an approximately 32% increase in production compared tothe same period in 2006. We are hoping to produce a total of 5 million tones of potassium chloride by the end of 2007.