Tajikistan and Azerbaijan plan to discuss increase in the volume of transit of Tajik aluminum through Azerbaijan and the supply of aluminum oxide from Azerbaijan to Tajikistan. This issue will become one of discussion topics during the visit of the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to Baku on August 10-11. Next year growth in aluminum…
In January-June Russia exported 1.551 million tons of raw aluminum valued at $2.8 billion, up by 15.4% and by 32.1% YoY respectively. According to the Federal Customs Service, in June exports dropped by 34% MoM, to 272 thousand tons valued at $482.6 million, down by 34.1%. Rusal is Russia’s largest producer of primary aluminum. Last…
In January-June Tajikistan produced 46.7 thousand tons of aluminum valued at $99.5 million, down from 49.5 thousand tons last year. The output decrease in the past 6-7 years has to do with the drop of aluminum prices on world markets. Last year world markets were selling primary aluminum for $1892 per ton, now the price…
In September the Aluminum Works in the city of Volgograd will resume primary aluminum manufacture, suspended 5 years ago. Autumn will also see the commissioning of the baked anode factory. The cost of each project is some 8 billion rubles. The electrolysis manufacture at the works was suspended in August 2013 by Rusal because of…
Russia’s aluminum exports almost tripled MoM, to 420,100 tons in May, the Federal Customs Service said. In monetary terms, aluminum exports grew 2.55-fold, to $751.6 million. In January-May the exports rose by 22.8%, to 1.337 million tons in volume terms and by 44.1%, to $2.482 billion in monetary terms. Copper exports grew by 25.9%, to…
The projects to stimulate aluminum processing in regions are an important condition to develop economy of the Russian Federation. According to the governor of the Republic of Chuvashiya Mikhail Ignatiev, the region is open for investors and innovation projects. “We have to support and develop aluminum-based products manufacture, as they can be exported and support…
In April Russia exported 172 thousand tons of raw aluminum, down by 43% MoM and by 19% YoY. According to the customs statistics, in January-April raw aluminum exports reached 1.01 million tons valued at $1952 million, up by 9.6% and by 31.5% YoY respectively. In April the average price was $1894.6 per ton FOB, down…
The Ministry of industry and trade is constantly monitoring the situation with Rusal and in the cities of its presence. At present “there is no danger”. The minister Denis Manturov believes that the creation of processing enterprises inside the country will be the best way to help both the industry and the company. “All the…
