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Rusal Successfully Places ₽15 Billion Bond On Moscow Exchange

Rusal Successfully Places ₽15 Billion Bond On Moscow Exchange

In the first such move since sanctions from the United States government were removed earlier this year, Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal announced the successful placement of a ruble bond on the Moscow Exchange. Rusal’s ruble-based bond placement consisted of a...

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Events

Rusal To Build Pilot Plant For Production Of Fine Precipitated Aluminium Hydroxide

Rusal To Build Pilot Plant For Production Of Fine Precipitated Aluminium Hydroxide

Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal announced yesterday that it has readied construction on a ₽500 million (US$7.84 million) pilot plant at Achinsk Alumina Refinery (AGK) dedicated to the production of fine precipitated aluminium hydroxide (FPAH). Rusal says the pilot plant, which will possess a nameplate production capacity of 5 thousand metric tons per annum, […]

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Despite Sanctions, Rusal’s Sales Of Alumina Jumped By 26.8 Percent In 2018

Despite Sanctions, Rusal’s Sales Of Alumina Jumped By 26.8 Percent In 2018

Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal reported financial and production results for 2018 yesterday, turning in strong numbers especially in light of the sanctions placed upon it for the majority of the year by the United States government. In 2018, Rusal smelted 3,753 thousand metric tons of primary aluminium, 1.2 percent above the prior year’s […]

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Researchers Develop New Aluminium Alloy Using Microscopic Diamonds

Researchers Develop New Aluminium Alloy Using Microscopic Diamonds

A team of Russian and British scientists announced the development of a process to add nanoscale diamonds to molten aluminium, making a new aluminium alloy tailored to maritime transportation applications. Researchers from Brunel University in London and Tomsk State University in south-central Siberia say the process is the first of its kind, as no efforts […]

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Rusal Bauxite Production Jumped 18.9 Percent In 2018

Rusal Bauxite Production Jumped 18.9 Percent In 2018

Despite being hampered by sanctions most of both periods, Russian aluminium giant U.C. Rusal showed production results ranging from level pegging to significant increases in both the fourth quarter and the full year of 2018. In last year’s final quarter, Rusal produced 943 thousand metric tons of primary aluminium, up by 3 thousand metric tons […]

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U.S. Senate Votes Against Extending Sanctions On Rusal

U.S. Senate Votes Against Extending Sanctions On Rusal

Russian Federation aluminium titan U.C. Rusal is seeing more light at the end of the sanctions tunnel after the United States Senate rejected legislation that would have kept the world’s second-biggest aluminium producer under sanction. On Wednesday the upper house of Congress voted 57-42 to end debate on the legislation, effectively ending its consideration by […]

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