Bogoslovsky Aluminum Works, a part of Rusal, has put the decomposing battery No. 1 into operation.
The volume of the battery is 2.2 thousand cubic meters; the construction lasted for 1.5 years. Investments into the project totaled 147 million rubles.
The new machine will process aluminum solution and increase alumina manufacture by 87 thousand tons per year, or by 10% of the company’s capacities.
“Thanks to the new battery we will be able to decrease prime cost and increase alumina output, which will bring the works closer to its industrial capacity of 1.03 million tons in 2017”, the BAZ CEO Vladislav Kazachkov said.
Aluminum manufacture at BAZ was shutdown in late 2013. (Ukrainian metal)
