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10.02.2025
RUSAL Receives Highest ESG Ranking from China's Leading Agency
Moscow, 10 February 2025 – RUSAL, one of the world's largest aluminum producers, received an ESG ranking from the Chinese rating agency China Chengxin Green Finance Technology (CCXGF).
The agency has assigned RUSAL the highest-category ranking of "A-". The expert assessment was made based on 17 key indicators of the Company’s environmental, social and corporate governance performance.
"China is a high-potential market with a growing demand for low-carbon footprint products. An independent assessment of RUSAL's operational efficiency in matters of sustainable development and ESG risk management is important for local customers. In 2024, three of the Company's aluminum smelters, including the two largest ones, Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk smelters, received the Green Power Aluminum certificates from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association for low-carbon production. The ranking once again confirms the Company's high profile in the field of sustainable development," says Evgenii Nikitin, RUSAL's CEO.
Since 2023, RUSAL has been implementing the 2035 Sustainable Development Strategy with an ambitious goal to make sustainability affordable across the aluminium value chain. By driving the so-called decoupling effect, the company aims at creating a new class of assets in the non-ferrous metals sector, future fit by meeting the low-carbon and circular economy demands.
CCXGF is a subsidiary of China Chengxin International Credit Rating Co. (CCXI), the largest Chinese credit rating agency with the largest market share in the domestic market of China. The agency focuses on ESG ratings, ESG bond verification and other projects in the field of sustainable development.
The agency has assigned RUSAL the highest-category ranking of "A-". The expert assessment was made based on 17 key indicators of the Company’s environmental, social and corporate governance performance.
"China is a high-potential market with a growing demand for low-carbon footprint products. An independent assessment of RUSAL's operational efficiency in matters of sustainable development and ESG risk management is important for local customers. In 2024, three of the Company's aluminum smelters, including the two largest ones, Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk smelters, received the Green Power Aluminum certificates from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association for low-carbon production. The ranking once again confirms the Company's high profile in the field of sustainable development," says Evgenii Nikitin, RUSAL's CEO.
Since 2023, RUSAL has been implementing the 2035 Sustainable Development Strategy with an ambitious goal to make sustainability affordable across the aluminium value chain. By driving the so-called decoupling effect, the company aims at creating a new class of assets in the non-ferrous metals sector, future fit by meeting the low-carbon and circular economy demands.
CCXGF is a subsidiary of China Chengxin International Credit Rating Co. (CCXI), the largest Chinese credit rating agency with the largest market share in the domestic market of China. The agency focuses on ESG ratings, ESG bond verification and other projects in the field of sustainable development.
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05.06.25
RUSAL Starts Commercial Production of New Low-carbon Foundry Alloys for the Automotive Industry
Moscow, 5 June 2025 – RUSAL, one of the world's largest aluminium producers, has launched commercial production of Primary Equivalent Foundry Alloys (PEFA) with post-consumer scrap content for the automotive industry. The project has been realised at Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter along with increasing the share of recycled metal in the alloys that now reaches up to 40%.
27.05.25
RUSAL Invests in Capacity Expansion for Thin Gauge Foils for Food Packaging
Moscow, 27 May 2025 – RUSAL, one of the largest global aluminium producer, is expanding its thin gauge foil capacity for food packaging applications. By upgrading the С-3/2 finishing foil mill, SAYANAL foil plant will be able to increase its thin gauge output by 10-12%, whereas Ural Foil plant, for the first time in its history, is starting to embark on this advanced production.
22.04.25
RUSAL develops aluminum scrap recycling
Krasnoyarsk, April 17, 2025 - RUSAL, one of the world's largest primary aluminum producers, has produced a number of slabs intended for manufacturing of aluminum cans using more than 50% scrap. The Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Smelter project was implemented using metal produced using inert anode technology.
20.03.25
RUSAL is switching its aluminum production to eco-friendly petroleum pitch for the first time in the industry's history
Moscow, March 20, 2025 - RUSAL, one of the world's largest aluminum producers, is for the first time in the industry's history switching its aluminum production to anodes using environmentally friendly petroleum pitch on a commercial scale. Coal tar pitch is traditionally used in anodes during electrolysis all over the world; the industrial use of petroleum pitch, which significantly reduces the emission of harmful substances, was previously considered impossible. RUSAL has invested about 100 million rubles in scientific research and development of petroleum pitch.
14.03.25
RUSAL announces results for the year ended 31 December 2024
Moscow, 15 March 2024 – RUSAL (SEHK: 486; Moscow Exchange: RUAL), a leading global aluminium producer, announces its results for the year ended 31 December 2024.