EEI Corporation received from Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corporation (PASAR) the Notice to Proceed for the Plantwide Turn Around Related Projects in its Acid Plant situated in Leyte Industrial Development Estate, Isabel, Leyte, consisting of 10 sub- packages for a total contract price of PHP 460,510,000.00. PASAR is the only copper smelter and refinery in the Philippines and the first in Southeast Asia that processes and exports refined copper and precious metal by-products of international standards.