Hassan al-Rashid, deputy CEO of Qatar Aluminium Co (Qatalum), a joint-venture smelter between and state-owned Qatar Petroleum and Norsk Hydro, will start aluminium sales to Europe and North America in three months, Bloomberg has reported. The company, known as Qatalum, now ships aluminium produced by the plant to Asia and the Middle East, he said. The smelter, with an annual capacity of 585,000 tonnes, produces about 300 tonnes of aluminium a day and will reach full output in the fourth quarter, CEO Jan Arve Haugan said.