In 2019, Irkutsk Aluminum Works manufactured 421,967 tons of goods, up by 2.4 thousand tons from the plan. Value-added products accounted for 68% of the output. Wire rod manufacture totaled 150.9 thousand tons. It is mainly supplied to the cable plants. Alloys output was on the level of 125 thousand tons. IrkAZ produces ingots of…
Shelekhov town bailiffs (Irkutsk region) have recovered 35.6 million rubles from an aluminum works. The regional prosecutor has filed a claim against a local plant (Irkutsk Aluminum Works) to recover damages to the soil as a result of the filtrate spilled outside the waste landfill as well as on the forest territory. The Shelekhov town…
Since the beginning of 2018 Irkutsk Aluminum Works has produced over 10 thousand tons of innovative alloys of 8030 and 8176 grades. All the metal was used to manufacture aluminum wire rod. Such alloys and wire rod have been allowed by the Ministry of construction to be used in the construction of housing. By the…
In 2017 Irkutsk Aluminum Works manufactured 335.208 thousand tons of high-added valued products, or 80% of the total output. In 2016 the figure stood at 72%. Last year IrkAZ produced over 419 thousand tons of metal, up by 19 thousand form the project capacity. This is the first time that the company reaches such results.…
In 2018 Irkutsk Aluminum Works will be the first aluminum producer in Siberia to pass the ASI certification. Not only the manufacturing process at the works will be certified, but the complete manufacturing chain starting from obtaining and preparing raw materials as well. Rusal plans that its Bauxite of Timan and Ural Aluminum Works will…
Irkutsk Aluminum Works has started shipping the KEP-2 coke to produce baked anodes. The main customer is Sayanogorsk Aluminum Works (SAZ), which produces baked anodes for its own metal manufacture, as well as for other Rusal works. So far 38 railroad cars with KEP-2 weighing 2380 tons have been shipped to SAZ. IrkAZ was able…
The environment prosecutors filed a suit to recover 47 million rubles from Irkutsk Aluminum Works for the damage done to the environment when using the industrial and household waste landfill. According to the prosecutors the company has violated the rules to manage wastes, resulting in the damage to the environment. Thus, the soil and trees…
RUSAL, a leading global aluminum producer, announces the launch of an experimental reduction area at the Irkutsk Aluminum Works, which will operate under the EcoSoderberg technology. The total amount of investment in the project reached 540 million rubles. Implementing EcoSoderberg technology is one of the priority retrofitting projects for RUSAL. New generation potcells have a…