23.07.10
RUSAL restarts Ewarton Alumina Refinery in Jamaica
Moscow, 22 July 2010 - UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, EuroNext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world's largest aluminium producer, announces the restart of operations at its Ewarton Works in Jamaica. The refinery is part of Windalco, which was mothballed in 2009 due to the global economic downturn. The total capacity of the Ewarton refinery is about 650,000 tonnes of alumina per year. RUSAL plans to produce about 321,000 tonnes of alumina from the refinery by the end of this year.
15.07.10
Norilsk Nickel management refuses to provide RUSAL with voting papers from disputed AGM elections
<P><EM>Violates Article 91 of Russian Federal Law On Joint Stock Companies</EM><BR><BR>Moscow, 15 July 2010 – UC RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium producer and owner of a 25% stake in MMC Norilsk Nickel, announces that Norilsk Nickel’s management has refused to provide UC RUSAL with voting papers from the Annual General Meeting that took place on 28 June, in violation of Article 91 of the Russian Federal Law on Joint Stock Companies. </P>
07.07.10
RUSAL to submit Norilsk Nickel EGM request by 20 July
<P><EM>lodges demand to inspect AGM voting papers</EM></P>
<P>Moscow, 7 July 2010 – UC RUSAL, (HKSE: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer and owner of 25% shares of MMC Norilsk Nickel, intends to submit a request to convene an extraordinary general meeting of MMC Norilsk Nickel by 20 July.</P>
<P>Moscow, 7 July 2010 – UC RUSAL, (HKSE: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer and owner of 25% shares of MMC Norilsk Nickel, intends to submit a request to convene an extraordinary general meeting of MMC Norilsk Nickel by 20 July.</P>
02.07.10
UC RUSAL announces structural changes and new appointment
Moscow, 2 July 2010 – UC RUSAL, (HKSE: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer, announces a new structure for its Aluminium Division designed to increase specialization and better serve customers. The division will be focused on two units – East and West. The Aluminium Division West will be headed by Aleksey Arnautov, while Vladimir Polin, formerly the Senior Vice President of OAO Mechel, will lead the Aluminium Division East.
28.06.10
UC RUSAL's statement
Recently, several online and printed media have run articles containing completely unfounded statements that UC RUSAL faces problems. In addition, last week, an analytical website of a doubtful reputation published an anonymous report allegedly based on a poll of US minority shareholders of MMC Norilsk Nickel, but in reality based on fictitious statistics divorced from reality. <BR>
28.06.10
RUSAL intends to convene an extraordinary general meeting of MMC Norilsk Nickel
Moscow, 28 June 2010 – UC RUSAL, (HKSE: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer and owner of 25% shares of MMC Norilsk Nickel, intends to convene an extraordinary general meeting of MMC Norilsk Nickel following the announcement of the results of the elections to the Board of Directors of Norilsk Nickel.
23.06.10
UC RUSAL announces structual changes and appoints Steven Hodgson as International Sales Director
Moscow, 23 June 2010 – UC RUSAL, (HKSE: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer, announces structural changes in its marketing and sales division and the appointment of Steven Hodgson as International Sales Director.
18.06.10
RUSAL and FGC UES sign a production agreement for new power cables
Saint Petersburg, 18 June 2010 – UC RUSAL (HKSE 486, Euronext RUSAL/RUAL), the world's largest producer of aluminium and the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System, the operator of Russia's national grid, announce that they have signed an agreement to manufacture new types of cables for overhead power transmission lines.
15.06.10
UC RUSAL delegation visits the Republic of Guinea
Moscow, 15 June 2010 – UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, EuroNext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer, announces the visit of a UC RUSAL delegation headed by Oleg Deripaska, CEO of UC RUSAL, to Guinea. Within the framework of the visit the company and the government of the country reached several agreements.