RUSAL’s main goal is to upgrade, to introduce state-of-the-art production
practices and to look for new opportunities for development as an energy and
metals company. Investment projects of the Company are aimed at securing raw
materials supply, creating own power-generating facilities, increasing the
production of aluminium and improving environmental indices thanks to the
introduction of modern technology.
Boguchanskoye Energy and Metals Complex
In
May 2006, RUSAL and HydroOGK, a subsidiary of RAO UES of Russia, signed a
cooperation agreement to jointly build the Boguchanskoye Energy and Metals
Complex....
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Construction of an aluminium smelter near Irkutsk
In
2006, RUSAL began early work to construct a 750,000 tonnes-per-annum greenfield
aluminium smelter in Taishet, a small town near Irkutsk. The construction is
expected to be completed in 2012....
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Modernisation of Irkutsk aluminium smelter
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RUSAL is carrying out large-scale modernisation of the Irkutsk aluminium
smelter, which was commissioned in 1962. The production facility uses the
135-160kA Soderberg technology with vertical self-baking studs....
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