Aluminum giant UC RUSAL and energy and metals holding En+ Group of the Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska can reregister in a special administrative zone in Kaliningrad until the end of 2019, Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin declared. “We are working on this and will do all we can on our side,” Oreshkin said. Oreshkin added…
Russian aluminum producer RUSAL is reregistering the business in a special administrative zone in Kaliningrad, Yelena Bezdenezhnykh, vice-president for regional policies and government relations, said at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. “RUSAL is relocating to Kaliningrad, as you know, there is reregistration,” Bezdenezhnykh said. “In this case this is one of the good examples…
In January-March, Rusal received $2.17 billion of revenue as opposed to $2.74 billion in Q1 2018. The decrease is due to the drop of aluminum prices by 13.9%, to $1859 per ton. EBITDA fell by 60.5%, to $226 million. Net profit decreased by 49.8%, to $273 million. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-March, Rusal decreased aluminum manufacture by 0.3% YoY, to 928 thousand tons. Siberian plants accounted for 93% of the aluminum manufactured. Sales totaled 989.6 thousand tons, with high-added value products sales down by 22.2%, to 259 thousand tons. Average price decreased by 7.8% QoQ, to $1949 per ton. Aluminum foil and packaging production dropped…
In January-March, Severouralsk Bauxite Mine, a part of Rusal, decreased output by 15.3% QoQ, to 529 thousand tons of bauxites. In Q4 2018 the output was 625 thousand tons, and in Q1 2018 – 555 thousand tons. Another Rusal asset – Uralskaya Folga – increased manufacture by 31% QoQ, to 5.5 thousand tons of aluminum…
Rusal has placed 10-year bonds valued at 15 billion rubles. The interest rate is 9%. Initial volume of bonds was 10 billion rubles, but the demand allowed the company to increase it to 15 billion. This is the first issue of bonds by Rusal after the sanctions from it have been lifted. In January 2018,…
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL wants to buy one of Gazprom Energoholding’s hydropower plants in the Murmansk region in an attempt to reduce the cost of power supplied to its low margin aluminum plant in the town of Kandalaksha. RUSAL CEO Yevgeny Nikitin sent a letter to the region’s governor Andrei Chibis with a proposal…
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…