Aluminium Companies of Russia - United Company Rusal, Kamensk Uralsky Metallurgical Works, Sual Group (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: United Company RUSAL (SEHK: 486) (Russian:, /OK RUSAL/) is the world's largest aluminium company. UC RUSAL accounts for almost 11% of the world's primary aluminium output and 13% of the worlds alumina production. The United Company was formed by the merger of RUSAL (Russian: ), SUAL, and the alumina assets of Glencore, completed in March 2007. The company operates in 19 countries over five continents and employs over 75,000 people across its international operations and offices. United Company RUSAL incorporated at Jersey, Crown dependency. The company has its Financial Center operating from Jersey. RUSAL is the global leader in the aluminium industry and accounts for approximately 12% of global aluminium production and 13% of the worlds alumina output. It has played a decisive role in the consolidation of the Russian aluminium industry during its establishment as a large, vertically integrated aluminium holding. The Russian aluminium industry dates back to 1932, the year when the Volkhov aluminium smelter produced the first batch of aluminium. Following that, construction of smelters began to meet the growing demand of the national economy. During WW2, the production facilities in the country were evacuated to the Urals and Western Siberia, and the relocated equipment was used to build the Bogoslovsk and Novokuznetsk aluminium smelters. In the 1950s, new aluminium smelters were built for strategic purposes in Kandalaksha, Nadvoitsy and Volgograd. In the 1960s and 1970s, smelters in Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk were constructed in close proximity to the largest hydro power plants in Siberia. By the early 1980s, Russia was the worlds second largest producer of aluminium after the US. Russia has been historically short of ... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=7739854