International rating agency Moody’s has improved its outlook of corporate ratings of Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL to Positive from Stable, affirmed the corporate credit rating at Ba3 and the probability of default rating at Ba3-PD, the agency said in a research note late on September 26. Moody’s improved the outlook due to deleverage of…
Rusal announces the manufacture of the first in Russia high-voltage power transformer with aluminum winding. The project was carried out by the Engineering-Construction division in 2016-2017 within the program to improve the stability of electric equipment operation at Rusal aluminum plants. The first transformer has already arrived at the Bratsk Aluminum Works. Rusal plans to…
In January-June Rusal placed eurobonds valued at $600 million with the 5-year maturity rate and the interest of 5.125%, as well as panda-bonds for 1 billion yuan ($150 million) for 2+1 years with 5.5%. The group has also placed $500 million worth of eurobonds for 6 years with 5.3% interest. Rusal has signed a new…
In January-June Rusal increased earnings by 22.3% YoY, to $4.674 billion, mostly because of the LME aluminum price increase and the company sales growth by 3.8%. Earnings in Q2 went up by 7.4% QoQ, to $2,467 billion. The share of the high added value products increased to 49.2% from 44.3%. Corrected EBITDA in Q2 grew…
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has launched a $23.7 million coke calcination unit with a capacity of 72,000 tons annually at its plant in Irkutsk (IrkAZ), the company said in a statement on August 15. The unit will produce calcined coke, which will be used at the Sayanogorsky Aluminum Plant to make baked anodes. Currently…
Rusal has put into operation a wire rod hardening furnaces at the Kandalaksha Aluminum Works. Investments totaled $5.6 million. The project began in March 2016. Now the works is capable of producing 6.8 thousand tons of 6101-T4 alloy wire rod per year, as well as improve its competitiveness and expand its client base. In March…
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group is selling a 7% stake in aluminum giant UC RUSAL to a company affiliated with Sual Partners of Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik for $503.9 million, RUSAL said in a statement on August 11. At present, Onexim holds 13.7% in RUSAL and Sual Partners has a 15.8% stake. As…
Rusal has stopped supplying aluminum to the largest manufacturer of cast wheel disks in Russia – Kik LLC. According to the K&K Group of Companies CEO Sergey Kuklin, having purchased the Skad LLC, Rusal got an opportunity to enter the car disk market, the world volume of which is estimated at 300 million pieces a…