RUSAL seeks Kremlin aid four bauxite and alumina plants face mothballing risk
Leading Russian aluminium producer RUSAL is considering mothballing four alumina and bauxite facilities as the company faces combined annual losses of around USD 800 million. The move hints at the growing pressure on the economics of domestic raw-material production. RUSAL is also estimating losses...
RUSAL train derailment in Guinea halts Friguia alumina exports
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,...
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RUSAL PROFILE: Aluminium producer looks to cut debt and costs, focus on products
United Company Rusal remains focused on cutting debt and costs and meeting its customers' requirements, rather than looking at new projects or acquisitions, first deputy ceo Vladislav Soloviev told Metal Bulletin. The company believes Russia and especially eastern Siberia have vast potential, and...
Settlement between RUSAL and antimonopoly watchdog approved
A court has approved a settlement between a subsidiary of RUSAL, the worlds largest aluminum producer, and the antimonopoly watchdog in connection with price manipulation in the wholesale energy market. The Moscow Commercial Court has terminated proceedings in the lawsuit filed by RUSAL Krasnoyarsk...
UC RUSAL Packaging Division Plans To Increase Its Production By 25%
RUSAL/RUAL, MICEX: RUALR, RTS: RUALR), the world’s largest aluminium producer, is pleased to announce its plans to increase the total production volume of its Packaging Division by 25% until 2014, from 80,000 to 100,000 tonnes per annum, amounting to 5.3% of the world’s total foil production...
FG inaugurates committee to facilitate aluminium production
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr Musa Mohammed Sada, has inaugurated a technical committee to liaise with UC Rusal Aluminium Smelter Company at Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, to facilitate the production of aluminium and aluminium products in the country. The committee was inaugurated...
Nigeria: Country to Produce 100,000 Tons of Aluminium Annually
Nigeria is targeting producing 100,000 tons of aluminium annually starting from 2013, Minister of Mines and Steel Development Musa Sada has said. Sada said while inaugurating a committee that would facilitate the production of aluminium and aluminium products that the country is expected to "meet...
Armenian foil-rolling plant operates successfully
Armenia’s ArmenAl Foil-Rolling Plant—which is a part of the Russian RusAl Company—in capital Yerevan, for the first time surpassed its planned production level, which is 25 tons of foil per year. Ever since the Plant’s establishment in 2000, it has produced and sold more than 130 thousand tons....
RUSAL plans to boost foil production 20pct by 2014
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL plans to boost its packing division’s annual production of foil to 100,000 tonnes by 2014, up from 80,000 tonnes per year, the company said Tuesday. The production increase is to be achieved through upgrades at RUSAL’s three largest foil and foil packaging plants,...
Rusal IRKAZ and ItN Nanovation finish testing nano coatings for casting production
The Irkutsk Aluminum Smelter, IRKAZ which belongs to Russian aluminum company UC Rusal, has successfully finished testing Nanocomp Metcast, nanocoatings developed by Rusnano's project company ItN Nanovation AG of Germany. Rusal in a press release said that "Nanocomp Metcast are innovative...
UC RUSAL Nikolaev Alumina Refinery Hits Record Production In 2011
UC RUSAL's, the world's largest aluminium producer, Nikolaev alumina refinery has delivered a record annual production level of 1.6 million tonnes of alumina during 2011. The output increase in 2011 was also made possible through implementation of RUSAL's Production System, raising equipment...
United Company RUSAL : UC RUSAL Nikolaev alumina refinery reached record production level
These record levels were reached following a USD350 million CAPEX programme that has been undertaken at the refinery since 2000, resulting in significant upgrades to the refinery's facilities. In particular, the lime burning kiln has been reconstructed with its conversion to heating gas, fifth...
United Company RUSAL : UC RUSAL Nikolaev alumina refinery reached record production level
These record levels were reached following a USD350 million CAPEX programme that has been undertaken at the refinery since 2000, resulting in significant upgrades to the refinery's facilities. In particular, the lime burning kiln has been reconstructed with its conversion to heating gas, fifth...
Nigerian Senate Votes to End Deals With Rusal, Global Steel
Nigeria’s Senate voted for the cancellation of the sale of 12 state-owned companies, including an aluminum smelter sold to United Co. Rusal Plc of Russia and a steel company bought by Global Steel Holdings Ltd. of India. The process of privatizing the companies “was marred by political interference...
Nanoceramic Coating of Nanostart-Holding ItN Nanovation AG Passes Field Trials at the World's Largest Aluminium Smelter RUSAL
Nanostart (otcqx:NASRY)-holding ItN Nanovation AG, (ISIN DE000A0JL461) announces that RUSAL's IRKAZ, an aluminium smelter based in Irkutsk, and specialists from RUSAL's Engineering and Technology Center, have successfully tested Nanocomp Metcast, nanocoatings developed by ItN Nanovation AG...
Rusal plans packaging production increase
UC Rusal plans to increase production from its Packaging Division by 20% until 2014. It will increase from 80kt to 100kt/y, amounting to 5.3% of the world’s total foil production excluding China. It will also review its production portfolio, to focus on converter foil. Total investment in the...
RUSAL faces tough choices over ALSCON acquisition
All is not looking good for RUSAL, a Russian firm that acquired the multi million naira Aluminium Smelter Company (ALSCON) in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State. The company appears to be in a fix over mounting challenges and unresolved issues relating to its acquisition of Nigeria ’s only smelter plant....
Rusal’s CEO Says Currency Crisis May Reduce Aluminum Demand
United Co. Rusal (486), the world’s largest aluminum producer, said the euro currency crisis may cause a “cyclical panic” in commodity markets, prompting a decline in metal demand from smaller manufacturers. A concern for the industry is “how quickly the euro goes down and what’s the transition...
United Company RUSAL Plc: Continuing Connected Transactions
Reference is made to the announcement of the Company dated 28 March 2011 in relation to certain continuing connected transactions regarding the purchase of alumina products and limestone by members of the Group from BCP, an associate of En+. The Company announces that during December 2011,...
RUSAL to buy Bogoslovsk power plant to keep aluminium plant working
The Russian aluminium major RUSAL will buy the Bogoslovsk power station to keep the Bogoslovsk aluminium plant working, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting over the plant's critical situation on Thursday. "A solution to the problem should be found, two documents should be...
