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Platts Metals Daily

Russian aluminum company Rusal said Wednesday it has earmarked Rb5.2 billion ($83 million) for upgrade work at two of its Siberian smelters this year.

Metal Bulletin

Lower Chinese production is set to fuel supply deficits in Asian aluminium markets in 2020, according to UC Rusal marketing head Roman Andryushin. During 2019, aluminium supply in Asia was not growing due to falling primary aluminium output in China, and this is set to continue this year, Andryushin told Fastmarkets in an interview.

TASS

Rusal has resumed negotiations with all customers after the sanctions against the company were lifted in January 2019, the situation with the supply of products is expected to straighten out by the end of the year, Oleg Mukhamedshin, Director of Strategy, Business Development and Financial Markets at Rusal, said in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the SPIEF-2019.

Metal Bulletin

Russian aluminium producer Rusal is again shipping fresh primary aluminium to the United States and Europe following the removal of sanctions against the company in January, according to chief executive Evgenii Nikitin, Rusal’s press office told Fastmarkets .

TASS

Russia’s aluminum producer Rusal aims at bringing the share of alloys to at least 50% of the total production structure over the mid-term, Chief Executive Officer Evgenii Nikitin said in an interview with TASS at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, adding that the company had such operating performance prior to 2018.

TASS

World's second largest aluminum company Rusal plans to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions at plants by 15% by 2025, the company General Director Yevgeny Nikitin said in a speech at the Russian pavilion operating on the sidelines of the United Nations World Conference on Climate Change on Tuesday.