begin production in early 2012 . the output from the first line has been contracted for sale under a long-term agreement . additionally , in march 2011 we entered into a joint venture agreement with thai beverage can limited to construct a beverage container manufacturing facility in vietnam that will begin production in the first quarter of 2012 . we have also made recent strategic acquisitions . in october 2011 , we acquired our partners 2019 interests in qmcp and recorded a gain of $ 9