Novelis, the world’s biggest producer of rolled aluminum products, will no longer purchase metal produced by Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL to comply with U.S. sanctions. The company said that it could reduce its dependence on aluminum purchases from RUSAL. “Accordingly, we are confident that the risk for any material disruption in production will be…
The press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov has said that so far there are no ready-made scenarios to help Rusal, but a temporarily nationalization of the company could be one of the forms of state support. “There are various views on how to help the companies affected by US sanctions. This is just one…
RUSAL has met with Chinese companies and traders this week to discuss purchases of alumina and sales of aluminum as the U.S. sanctions freezed out the Russian producer from markets around the world, Bloomberg reported on April 19, citing people with knowledge of the talks. RUSAL is looking for alternative sources of alumina, the raw…
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has submitted state support proposals for refining of primary aluminum to the Industry and Trade Ministry, Minister Denis Manturov reported on April 18. On April 6 the U.S. imposed sanctions against 38 Russian tycoons, officials and companies including RUSAL. U.S. Investors were allowed to sell the shares and bonds of…
Russian aluminum giant RUSAL has suspended shipments of aluminum using facilities of container shipping company TransContainer, the operator’s CEO Pyotr Baskakov declared on April 17. “RUSAL doesn’t know yet what is happening so has suspended all shipments. We have delivered about 700 containers of the planned 3,000 per month. Export deliveries have stopped. This does…
Major Japanese trading houses have asked UC RUSAL to stop shipping refined aluminum and other products in light of U.S. sanctions on the world’s No. 2 producer and are scrambling to secure metal elsewhere, Reuters reported on April 17 citing industry sources. The U.S. imposed major sanctions on April 6 against seven Russian oligarchs and…
RUSAL intends to complete the development of a feasibility study in 2018 for the construction of a scandium oxide production unit at one of its Russian operations. Such a development adds to the company completing another series of pilot-scale tests in 2017 to recover scandium oxide from red mud on its new unit constructed at…
Russian aluminum producer RUSAL has abandoned an idea to ask the shareholders for a mandate to compete for a stake in Norilsk Nickel with Interros due to the new U.S. sanctions, it said in a statement. According to the statement, RUSAL will monitor the situation and can return to the move if sees it necessary.…