
Rusal, the world’s leading aluminium producer, has announced the investment of more than 870 million rubles (US$12 million) in repairing and modernising its plant SKAD for the production of aluminium alloy car wheels.

SKAD is Russia’s largest enterprise of producing cast aluminium alloy car disks, founded in 2002.
Rusal says that it has already completed a comprehensive programme of overhauls and modernisation of production at the SKAD plant. The company has refurbished workshops and carried out the main process equipment on the production line, and also installed new foundry machines and equipment for aluminium wheels production, including those from the “Almaz” line, as well as new equipment for in-line quality control of each wheel.
There are now two wheel painting complexes at the SKAD plant - the Eisenmann complex and the IMEL complex. The annual production volume of the enterprise is about 3.5 million wheels.

“The decision to purchase new equipment aligns with the modernization strategy of production at the SKAD plant. The measures taken are aimed at increasing labor productivity, improving product quality control and increasing the production of wheel disks. In the second half of 2021, an automated painting complex was fully commissioned, which made it possible to produce an additional 130 thousand wheels per month for our customers,” said Alexander Barantsev, Managing Director of SKAD.
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