In January-March RUSAL produced 910 thousand tons of aluminum, down by 2.1% QoQ. Sales reached 985 thousand tons, up by 6.8% QoQ. Value-added products amounted to 436 thousand tons in the total sales, up by 7.8%. The average price in Q1 increased by 8.3% QoQ, to $1949 per ton. Alumina output in January-March totaled 1889…
Aluminum producer RUSAL plans to keep its output on the level of 2016, or 3.685 million tons, in 2017, CEO Vladislav Solovyov said on the sidelines of a forum on April 21. “No less than last year. I think, at last year’s level,” Solovyov said. The Kemerovo region said that RUSAL would raise its investment…
Rusal acquires a share of the foundry and mechanical production facility Skad, producer of aluminum alloy car wheels, located in Krasnoyarsk region. Under the terms of the transaction, Rusal will own a stake in the authorized capital of Skad, while its founder Idris Zakriev will remain the Chief Executive Officer of the production facility. Skad…
Rusal and Runaya Metsource, a company promoted by principal shareholders of Vedanta, have signed an agreement to create a joint venture on an equal basis in India (JV). The JV will set up a world-class facility, which specializes in the production of high technology aluminum pastes and powders with a wide range of high-end applications,…
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has launched a $19.8 million rolling mill Properzi at the Kandalaksha aluminum smelter, which will produce up to 50,000 tons of value-added products, the company said in a statement on March 28. The facility will produce different types of rolled steel with diameters of 9.5-25 mm. Before the launch of…
In 2016 Rusal income decreased by 8% YoY, to $7.983 billion, because of the LME average aluminum price drop of 3.5% YoY, to $1.604 per ton. The corrected net profits and normalized net profits totaled $590 and $1.257 billion respectively, as opposed to $671 million and $1.097 billion in 2015. (Ukrainian metal)
Power generating company RusHydro has postponed a decision on joint construction of the Boguchansky aluminum plant or the Taishetsky aluminum plant with Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL to April, CEO Nikolai Shulginov told reporters on March 16. “We are making preparations. A meeting of the board of directors has been put off to April 1-10.…
In 2016 almost all of Rusal Siberian plants increased aluminum output. In particular, Bratsk Plant – by 0.1%, to 1.005 million tons, Krasnoyarsk Plant – by 1.2%, to 1.024 million tons, Sayanogorsk Plant – by 0.9%, to 530 thousand tons, Novokuznetsk Plant – by 1.8%, to 213 thousand tons, Irkutsk Plant – by 1.2%, to…