Rusal. December

RUSAL’s Nikolaev alumina refinery has delivered a record annual production level of 1.6 million tonnes of alumina during 2011. 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 calcination kiln has been built and the captive power ...

RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium producer, and RUSNANO announce 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 RUSNANO’s project company ItN Nanovation AG (Germany). Nanocomp Metcast are innovative nanocoatings tailored to casting machinery. They extend the service life of molds and lengthen the intervals for ...

RUSAL, world’s largest aluminium producer, is pleased to announce that RUSAL’s Engineering and Technology Center jointly with Siberian Federal University created a technology to produce aluminium alloys containing rare earth metals and transition materials, as well as developed efficient equipment for its implementation. The project will enable the Company to produce alloys for heavy-duty electric cables capable to transmit 1.5 times more electricity than modern power ...

RUSAL, the world's largest aluminium producer, announces its results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2011. Key highlights Revenue increased by 16.8% to USD3,162 million for the three months ended 30 September 2011, as compared to USD2,708 million for the same period of 2010, mainly due to an increase in sales prices and a record level of realised premiums of USD164 per tonne over the LME aluminium price. Adjusted EBITDA increased by 25.0% to USD705 million for the ...

RUSAL considers it necessary to make the following statement. RUSAL is satisfied with the results of the Government Commission session dedicated to analysis of the situation at the Bogoslovsk aluminium smelter and development prospects of the whole Urals aluminium production cluster. The Company has always emphasized that the key condition for stable operations of aluminium smelters is energy supply tariff enabling competitive production. Joint consultations held during the ...

UC RUSAL, world’s largest aluminum producer, announced the completion of redesigning of the Volkhov aluminum smelter (“VAS”) and the increase of its production capacity as a result of redesign. Total investment to the project amounted to USD 3 million. VAS completed the installation of new equipment in the cast house enabling the smelter to start a large-scale production of alloys and increase the casting capacity from 24,000 tpa to 32,000 tpa. The share of alloys ...