The main goals of this particular project are dictated by our common strategy, which is to improve the KPIs of our production facilities. The project will cover the following key issues: increasing efficiency of the existing production areas, improving the environmental performance parameters, re-structuring of the smelter in terms of headcount and distribution of roles and responsibilities, and elimination of redundancy.

At the project’s early stage, RUSAL teams studied the technical and financial parameters of the smelter to understand the project’s baseline environment, personnel, and business processes standards).

Basic principles were agreed as a task list for re-engineering or re-designing:

• Observation
• Analysis and planning
• Experiment on simulators and clusters of pots
• Implementation of the best practices and results
• Proliferation of results across the entire smelter

The project covers the Reduction Area (potrooms), the Service Centre and Pot Relining Shop at RUSAL Krasnoyarsk.

Further development of the RUSAL Business System will be one of the most important and valuable results of this project. This methodology, once proven, will be adopted by all the other plants of United Company RUSAL.