Alumina exports from RUSAL’s Friguia refinery in Guinea have been halted after a train carrying the material derailed over the weekend, disrupting rail access to the plant and forcing production to slow, three sources told Reuters. The train, operated by Russian aluminium producer RUSAL RUAL.MM,...
Europe’s aluminium industry produced more metal in the first half of 2026, but the numbers hide a more complicated story. Primary aluminium output rose 4.9 per cent year on year to 3.648 million tonnes, while metallurgical-grade alumina production fell 1.8 per cent to 2.846 million tonnes. At first...
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The Russian aluminium giant aluminium producer reaffirmed its excellent ranking in EcoVadis, the world's largest and most reliable supplier sustainability assessment. The Company has an integral score corresponding with the "silver" level. It associates the Company with the top-8 per cent of the...
Rusal's trade and production workers of its Jamaica facilities at Windalco, Port Esquivel, and Kirkvine have assured to report back to work when the business responds to claims granted by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT). On April 3, 2022, the workers took strike action in the morning by...
The possibility that the United States and its allies would impose economic penalties against Russia's aluminium in response to the ongoing geopolitical issue with Ukraine was one of the biggest unpredictability in the global aluminium sector while driving into 2023. The Russian aluminium industry...
When western countries turned back on Russian aluminium, China nearly doubled its imports from Russia. According to the data recently released by China customs, the country's imports of refined aluminium from Russia surged 94 per cent year-on-year to about 538,600 tonnes from March 2022 to February...
On Friday, March 17, Rusal announced a higher aluminium production in 2022, mitigating several challenges like Australia’s alumina export ban to Russia, suspension of alumina production at the Mykolaiv refinery, and inflated production cost due to energy and raw materials price hike. Rusal’s...
Glencore Plc is prepared to back out of a $16 billion agreement to purchase aluminium from Rusal, Russia's top producer, to separate itself from one of its main competitors. As per Gary Nagle, CEO of Glencore, the firm won't extend a contract with Rusal International when it expires next year...
Rusal, the world’s second-largest aluminium producer by primary output, has reportedly developed and inaugurated the production of raw materials for catalysts at the Achinsk Alumina Refinery (RUSAL Achinsk), besides the production of VOGA fire retardants. The project has involved an investment of...
The Singaporean-based Swiss multinational commodity trading company Trafigura is in the discussion stage to procure aluminium from the Russian aluminium giant Rusal, as reported by one of the globally renowned media houses. The company is highlighting its willingness to strike deals with Russian...
The sustainable development strategy of the RUSAL United Company aims at making, by decoupling our business growth from the environmental footprint, sustainability affordable across the entire aluminium value chain and creating a new class of assets in the non-ferrous metal sector. This means...
According to our sources, analysts from the metal industry have stated that Russia might restrict exports of critical metals like nickel and palladium if Washington imposes high tariffs on Russian aluminium imports. The Russian aluminium supply accounts for only a minor share of the US supplies....
After the Paris Environmental Act of 2015, all the major aluminium consuming regions on the planet are finding ways to increase the use of recycled aluminium. RUSAL, Russia’s giant producer of aluminium has decided to process end-of-life aluminium or scrap aluminium into foundry alloys so that they...
The Russian aluminium giant and one of the leading producers of aluminium in the world, RUSAL, initiated using end-of-life aluminium scrap to produce foundry alloys for the automotive industry. RUSAL reduced the new product's total carbon footprint by nearly 20 per cent due to this production....
According to a report on Wednesday, February 1, Rusal has started producing aluminium-scandium master alloys, the most technologically complex among melted master alloys, at its Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter. Master alloy is a base metal consisting of a relatively high percentage of one or two...
One of the world’s leading marketers of physical commodities, Glencore, has reportedly delivered 40,000 tonnes of Russian aluminium to the LME-approved warehouses in the South Korean port of Gwangyang, two sources familiar with the matter reported to Reuters. The addition of Russian metal to LME...
The year 2023 marked the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began that the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was attended by attendees. The theme of the meeting was “co-operation in a fragmented world.” Coronavirus limitations, trade tensions between the US and China, and the...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the first aluminium smelter in the Middle East, which opened its doors in 1971, announced on January 3, 2023, that it had achieved a new historic production record of 1,600,111 tonnes in 2022, an increase of 38,889 tonnes from 1,561,222 tonnes in 2021 (+2.5%...
According to our source in China, it has been reported on December 30, 2022, Rusal, a significant low-carbon aluminium producer, is trying to increase its low-carbon aluminium exports to China in light of the two countries cordial relations and the growing demand for the metal from Chinese electric...
The global primary aluminium industry is moving towards a more sustainable and greener environment. To begin with, EU signed the world's first carbon tariff agreement. According to the sources, the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will protect the European industry against importing less...
