Russian aluminum producer RUSAL has appointed Independent Director Jean-Pierre Thomas as the chairman of the board of directors, the company said in a statement on December 28. The decision will enter in force from January 1, 2019. Thomas was appointed as an independent director in June. According to a Reuters report, the appointment of a…
Rusal announces the resignation of Matthias Warnig from the office of the chairman of the board. Warnig was elected a member of the board in June 2012. In October 2012 he was elected chairman of the board. The new chairman will be chosen at the next meeting of the board. (Ukrainian metal)
Russian aluminum producer RUSAL will move the headquarters to Krasnoyarsk in six months, governor of the region Alexander Uss reported on December 25. “I hope that the sanctions will be revoked next year in January. RUSAL has somewhat slowed down work on headquarters move. I mean literally two–three, maybe up to six months. But this…
The Russian Finance Ministry is in dialogue with the U.S. Department of Treasury and hopes that the sanctions against aluminum producer RUSAL will be abolished in 2019, Minister Anton Siluanov declared on December 25. “The key point here is that the proposals formed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have been fulfilled. The…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury intends to lift sanctions from Russian power companies En+ Group and EuroSibEnergo, and aluminum giant UC RUSAL of businessman Oleg Deripaska in 30 days, but will retain sanctions against Deripaska personally, it said in a statement. The authority sanctioned these companies because of their ownership and control by Deripaska,…
The Russian government will buy up to 50,000 tons of aluminum or more from UC RUSAL if the company’s exports are hit with sanctions, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov declared. Earlier the government signed a ruling to allocate up to 10 billion rubles for the Federal Agency for State Reserves to buy up to…
Rusal has received a permission from ING Bank to change the payment currency from dollars to euros on the loan attracted on April 6, when it fell under the US sanctions. ING is an agent on the loan under the pre-export financing agreement for $2 billion dated May 24, 2017. The term of Rusal annual…
Norilsk Nickel has paid 122.78 billion rubles ($1.86 billion) of dividends for the first half of 2018. Rusal (owning 27.8%) is still receiving dividends, even though it has been hit by US sanctions. In November 5 Rusal reported that it had already received $402 million from Nornickel. According to Nornickel, these are dividends for 2017,…