UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminum producer, announces the launch of pilot operation of eight new generation RA-550 pots at Sayanogorsk Aluminum Smelter. The total amount of investment in the project reached $30 million. The project to develop the technology and launch the RA-550 site at SAZ was implemented within three years. The key advantage…
Rusal and Energoprom have signed a 5-year contract for the delivery of cathode blocks at the volume of 21.5 thousand tons per year. According to the agreement, in 2018-2022 Energoprom will cover up to 70% of Rusal aluminum works needs in carbon-graphite raw materials. The products will be supplied from Novosibirsk Electrode Works. “This is…
RUSAL has presented a list of the company’s most important events and achievements in 2017. The achievements form part of the company’s key deliverables and demonstrate its strategy in action, which is to enhance RUSAL’s operational efficiency and environmental performance, increase its share of value added products, and develop social infrastructure in the communities where…
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has approved of all conditions that hydropower giant RusHydro has set for its participation in construction of the Taishet aluminum smelter, RusHydro CEO Nikolai Shulginov declared. “They’ve approved them. We are now to take them into account while developing necessary documents, and if we don’t, we will stop,” he said.…
En+ Group, belonging of Oleg Deripaska and owning 48.13% of Rusal, has attracted VEB to two aluminum projects. In particular, VEB will invest 18.5 billion rubles in the construction of the first stage of TaAZ with the capacity of 420 thousand tons per year, and 7.7 billion rubles on the creating of aluminum plates manufacture…
RUSAL starts its data center project development at its Nadvoitsy Aluminum Smelter in the Republic of Karelia. The data center will focus on providing IT services, including solutions for big data analysis, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining-related operations. AA!LAB company has become the first project implementation partner to sign, alongside RUSAL, the Memorandum of Understanding…
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has agreed to acquire a majority stake in K&K, a Krasnoyarsk region-based light-alloy wheel disks facility, it said in a statement on November 30. The deal is currently under a due diligence procedure and will be sent to the Federal Antimonopoly Service for approval after its structure is defined, a…
Russian metals producers UC RUSAL and Norilsk Nickel have abandoned an idea of a merger, key owner of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin said on November 29. “We have agreed with Oleg Deripaska, president and key beneficiary of RUSAL, that Norilsk Nickel and RUSAL are different companies and no synergy is visible. This is why they…
