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What is UC RUSAL?
UC RUSAL is the world’s largest aluminium and alumina producer, created in
March 2007 following the merger of RUSAL, SUAL and Glencore’s alumina assets.
The Company accounts for 12% of global primary aluminium market and 13% of
alumina production. RUSAL owns 16 aluminium smelters, 12 alumina refineries, 8
bauxite mines, 3 powder metallurgy plants, 3 silicon smelters, 3 secondary
aluminium plants, 3 aluminium foil mills, 2 cryolite plants, and one cathode
plant.
What is the range of products of the United Company?
The Company’s assets include bauxite and nepheline mines (a hard variety of
Russian bauxite), and alumina refineries. This serves as a base to produce
aluminium, alloys, foils and packaging materials. The Company also manages a
number of power plants.
What is the Company’s management structure like?
RUSAL is organised on a divisional basis, where different business areas create
independent business units that have their own functional structure. Hence the
Company incorporates four divisions, responsible for different businesses such
as Aluminium Division, Alumina Division, Packaging Divisions, and Engineering
& Construction Division.
What are the competitive advantages of RUSAL?
RUSAL is the world’s leader in the aluminium industry. Its distinctive features
are well-balanced raw material and production assets, state-of-the-art
technology, highly efficient production and access to cheap sources of energy.
A tremendous synergy effect has occurred as a result of the merger. The Company
has thus integrated vast aluminium smelting capacities, alumina production
sites in the Russian Urals and in other parts of the world, cutting-edge
technology and the financial power of all the three companies.
How do you imagine UC RUSAL in the future?
Significant opportunities for development have arisen thanks to the merger:
access to new markets, development of relations with new customers and business
partners, self-sufficiency in raw materials – everything that is essential to
successfully implement our growth strategy. We will create a diversified power
and metals company, which uses the experience of each and every employee, our
hydraulic power resources, production facilities and the raw materials base. We
will strengthen our presence in the global market by offering high quality
products, as demand continually increases in line with our future expansion.
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