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HISTORY
2009
UC RUSAL completes modernisation
of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Smelter
2008
The Bratsk and
Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelters reach the capacity of 1 million tones a
year
UC RUSAL creates a joint venture “Bogatyr”
with the Kazakhstan state-controlled national welfare fund Samruk-Kazyna
UC RUSAL acquires more than 25% of shares of Norilsk Nickel
UC RUSAL acquires the RUSAL Taigu Cathode plant in
China that becomes subsidiary to RUSAL Shanxi Cathode plant
UC RUSAL launches the ALSCON Aluminium Smelter
(Nigeria)
UC RUSAL launches two first potrooms of the 5th potline at the
Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter
2007
UC RUSAL launches full capacity of the Khakas Aluminium
Smelter
A large-scale environmental modernisation of the Bratsk
Aluminium Smelter, the world's largest aluminium smelter, begins
UC RUSAL starts construction of the Taishet Aluminium
Smelter
UC RUSAL begins construction of Komi Aluminium, the
largest bauxite and alumina complex in Eurasia
UC RUSAL and HydroOGK start construction of the Boguchansky
Aluminium Smelter
The world’s largest aluminium company United Company RUSAL is created by merging
the aluminium and alumina assets of RUSAL, previously the third largest global
aluminium company, SUAL, one of the world’s top ten players in the aluminium
industry, and the alumina assets of Glencore (Switzerland)
RUSAL acquires the ALSCON Aluminium Smelter in
Nigeria
2006
RUSAL buys the majority stake in the Aroaima Mining Company in Guyana
RUSAL purchases a cathode plant in China
RUSAL’s Alumina Division adds Eurallumina (an
alumina refinery in Italy) to its list of assets
RUSAL commissions the Khakas aluminium smelter,
which, by today’s standards, is the most advanced aluminium production facility
in the world
RUSAL signs an agreement with HydroOGK to build Boguchanskoye
Energy and Metals Complex
RUSAL completes privatisation of the
Friguia alumina refinery in the Republic of Guinea
RUSAL buys the Boksitogorsk alumina refinery
2005
SUAL and RUSAL sign an agreement for joint participation as equal partners in
the Komi Aluminium project (construction of a
bauxite and alumina complex in the Komi Republic, Russia)
RUSAL completes the divestiture of its Samara and Belaya Kalitva rolling mills,
selling them to Alcoa
RUSAL completes the acquisition of a 20% equity interest in the
world’s second largest alumina refinery in terms of production capasity,
Queensland Alumina Limited, located in Queensland, Australia
2004
RUSAL signs an agreement
with the Government of Guyana on bauxite mine development in that
country. Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. was established
2003
RUSAL acquires the
VAMI R&D institute in St Petersburg, Russia
RUSAL’s holding company, Basic Element, increases its stake in RUSAL up to 75%
2002
RUSAL acquires the Friguia alumina refinery in
the Republic of Guinea
RUSAL founds an Engineering and Technology Centre (ETC)
RUSAL buys the controlling stake in the Novokuznetsk
aluminium smelter
RUSAL begins to manage the operations at the CBK
mining complex in the Republic of Guinea
By 2002
RUSAL buys the controlling stake in the ARMENAL
foil mill (Armenia) and the Belaya Kalitva rolling mill
2000
Sibirsky Aluminiy and Millhouse Capital agreed to manage jointly the aluminium
and alumina assets they controlled. A new company, JSC "RUSAL", was formed
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