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WHAT WE DO / OUR
OPERATIONS / ALUMINIUM
DIVISION / BOGOSLOVSK
ALUMINIUM SMELTER
BOGOSLOVSK ALUMINIUM SMELTER (BAZ)
 The Bogoslovsk Aluminium
Smelter is an alumina and aluminium complex. It is the third largest alumina
producer in the CIS. The complex produced its first alumina in 1944 and in 1945
first aluminium was produced.
Its main products are primary aluminium, alumina, anode paste, aluminium alloys,
underseals. The Bogoslovsk complex incorporates its own railway stations.
The smelter's annual capacity is 187 thousand tonnes of saleable aluminium and 1,100 thousand tonnes of alumina. The smelter employs 3,702 people.
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Krasnoturyinsk (named Turyinskiye
Rudniki until 1944) is a town in the Sverdlovsk region in Russia, located on
the Turya river, 370 km north of Yekaterinburg. It has a population of 64,600
people. Its main production facilities are an aluminium smelter, iron ore and
gold extraction mines.
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Technology
The potrooms of the Bogoslovsk Aluminium Smelter are equipped with Horizontal
Stud Soederberg pots of average capacity (the amperage is 75-90 kA).
The refinery runs a mixed parallel Bayer(80%)/sinter (20%) process.
To learn more about aluminium production please visit
http://www.aluminiumleader.com/en
Certificates
The Bogoslovsk Aluminium Smelter has been certified for compliance with the
international standards of quality management system ISO 9001, of the
environmental management system (ISO 14001:2004) and health and safety
management system (OHSAS 18001).
Development
An investment programme is currently underway at the smelter and includes an
expansion project at the second red mud disposal area.
Environment
In 2005, two potrooms were equipped with advanced gas scrubbers. A new
industrial waste storage was commissioned in 2008.
Management
General Director - Yuri Moisseev
Contact information
ul. K.Marksa, 1, Krasnoturyinsk,
Sverdlovskaya obl. 624440
Russia
Tel.: +7 34384 66501
Fax: +7 34384 45337
baz@baz.ru
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