Russia: Amurstal looking for federal subsidy

TOREX, owner of Amurstal in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, hopes to get a subsidy from the federal budget. The Ministry of industry and trade intends to provide major enterprises with support. The company plans to spend money to clear interest rate on loans, thus decreasing them by 4.5%. At present the ministry is choosing companies to participate in…

Russia: RUSAL and Braidy Industries to construct a greenfield aluminum rolling mill in Kentucky

RUSAL and Braidy Industries Inc., a US-based holding company which owns both Veloxint, an MIT-incubated lightweighting solutions company, and NanoAl, a Northwestern University incubated materials research and technology company, announced an intent to establish a joint project in Ashland, Kentucky, USA to produce flat rolled aluminum products for the US automotive industry. The design capacity…