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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

 

History of the Russian aluminium industry
The aluminium industry in Russia is considered to have been founded on 14th May 1932 when the Volkhov smelter in the Leningrad region produced its first batch of aluminium. One year later, the first aluminium was produced by the Dneprovsky smelter in the Ukraine. Despite the fact that in later years these smelters were steadily boosting output, it was not enough to meet the growing demands of the economy and construction of new production facilities in Russia began.
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