Lightweight Aluminium-Alloy Bridge Completed in Eastern Russia
UC Rusal and the Russian Aluminium Association announced yesterday the completion of the country’s second footbridge constructed with aluminium alloys....
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Russian Scientists Develop Porous, Floating Aluminium Alloy
Researchers in Russia have announced the development of an unsinkable aluminium alloy by making the substance porus. St. Petersburg’s Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University’s (SPbPU) Laboratory of Light Materials and Structures developed the breakthrough material by introducing gas into the...
Global Aluminium Deficit to Rise to 1.8 MMT in 2018: Rusal’s Mukhamedshin
The second-largest aluminium producer on Earth expects a global aluminium deficit as large as 1.8 million metric tons next year,...
Rusal Asks Japanese Buyers for Continuation of Q2 Aluminium Premium
According to Japanese aluminium buyers who spoke to industry media on Friday, UC Rusal requested of them a rollover of...
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Rusal Negotiates US$1.7 BN PXF Debt Facility
Russian Federation aluminium mammoth U.C. Rusal announced the successful negotiation of a new debt facility yesterday. The firm intends to use the facility to refinance its existing debt. The new agreement, which is a syndicated Pre-Export Finance Term Facility Agreement (PXF) is for an amount of US$1.7 billion at an interest rate 3M LIBOR+3% per […]
Rusal Boosts Corundum Production at Aluminium Refinery in NW Russia
Russian Federation aluminium titan UC Rusal announced on Friday that the modernization project the firm undertook at its Boksitogorsk Alumina Refinery is now complete. The US$1.65-million project began in the fall of 2015 and featured the installation of cutting-edge crushing and processing equipment intended to boost the facility’s output of corundum. The plant’s new nameplate […]
Aluminium’s Big 4: strategies and outlook for 2017
The four biggest aluminium companies in the world (excluding China), namely Alcoa, Norsk Hydro, UC Rusal and Rio Tinto, had a good start to 2017. Thanks to higher aluminium and alumina prices, all four registered significantly higher net profits in Q1 2017 compared to the previous quarter. But that doesn’t mean that all aluminium producers […]
Improvements in Aluminium Market and Russia’s Economy to Attract Investors to Rusal: En+’s Sokov
Investors looking to participate in emerging markets without the added risk of foreign exchanges would do well to give consideration to Russian Federation aluminium giant UC Rusal’s parent company En+ Group. So said the company’s Chief Executive Maxim Sokov to Reuters as reported in a recent article. Sokov noted that En+ sees itself as a […]
Recovered Aluminium Prices, Internal Cost Measures Buoy Rusal’s Q1 Results
Russian Federation aluminium titan UC Rusal released first-quarter results on Friday. Though production numbers remained approximately level, the recovery in the aluminium market coupled with internal cost consciousness contributed to solid gains on the firm’s financial bottom line. Rusal turned in US$2,297 million in revenue during the quarter, up 20% from US$1,194 million in the […]
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
