WHAT WE DO / OUR
OPERATIONS / ALUMINA
DIVISION / BOKSITOGORSK
ALUMINA REFINERY
BOKSITOGORSK ALUMINA REFINERY
 Commissioned in
1938, the Boksitogorsk Alumina Refinery is located in Boksitogorsk, the
Leningrad region, 240 kilometres from St. Petersburg. During the Second World
War the machines and equipment in the smelter were dismantled and moved to the
Urals region. The original equipment was returned from the Urals and
recommissioned at Boksitogorsk in 1954.
In 2009, the refinery’s output was 131,000 tonnes of alumina and 64,200 tonnes
of corundum products. The refinery supplies the majority of the corundum
consumed in Russia and it also exports corundum products to other countries.
60% of its electricity demand is satisfied with power supplied by ÎÀÎ Lenenergo,
while the remaining 40% of electricity and 100% of heat comes from the
refinery’s own heat and power plant. The refinery employs approximately 1,800
people and became part of UC RUSAL in January 2005.
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Boksitogorsk is a town in the
Leningrad region of the Russian Federation. It has a railway station and a
population of 17,000 people. An alumina refinery and a biochemical plant are
located in the town to mine bauxites. The Leningrad region occupies an area of
85,900 square kilometres and has a population of 1,673,700 people (excluding
those who live in St. Petersburg).
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Technology
The Boksitogorsk Alumina Refinery processes bauxite from Timan mine.
Cutting-edge technologies used by the refinery provide for the production of
aluminium hydroxide, both smelter grade and special alumina, as well as
abrasive and refractory materials made of white fused alumina of various grain
sizes.
The refinery operates a technology involving sintering of low-quality bauxite.
With such technology the refinery can process high-silica bauxite from
different deposits, which Bayer refineries are not capable of processing.
Specialists in the refinery continuously work to enhance the applied
technology.
To learn more about alumina production and use please visit
www.aluminiumleader.com/en/
Certificates
In April 2009 the Boksitogorsk Alumina Refinery was certified for compliance
with the international standards of the quality management system ISO
9001:2008.
Development
The plant's investment policy in 2008 was aimed at stabilising alumina and
corundum production processes, and health, safety and environmental issues.
As part of the investment programme, the following activities were implemented:
replacement of the feeder at the sinter crushing and screening area;
replacement of gas analysers at Sintering Kiln 1 in the Alumina Shop. Also in
the Alumina Shop, automatic control systems for vertical digesters were
replaced, which allowed for better control of the vertical digesters' process
parameters. In the Corundum Shop, a number of important technical solutions
were implemented including replacement of moulds, a spinner and the VKD-300
grinding machine.
The refinery has engaged the services of VAMI to investigate the potential to
sell residue materials to local cement manufacturers and as engineering fill
for road construction.
Management
Managing Director - Anatoly Golovanov
Contact information
Tel.: +7 (813 66) 212-61
Office of the Managing Director
Tel.: +7 (813 66) 262 78
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