RUSAL UPS ALUMINUM OUTPUT 4.3%
MOSCOW. Jan 28 (Interfax) - Russian aluminum giant RusAl raised output 4.3% to 2.589 million tonnes of primary
aluminum in 2003, the company said in a news release.
Sales were up 12% to $4.5 billion, from $4 billion in 2002 thanks partly to a 6%-increase in aluminum on the LME and
an improvement in the product mix and range.
Q4 2003 total Growth %
2003 2002 2003 2002 % tonnes
Bauxites 1 234 519 809 4 351 1 822 138,70 2 528
337 421 935 486
Alumina 1 244 551 800 2 981 2 161 37,99 820 918
122 918 000
Primary aluminum 664 932 632 461 2 588 2 482 4,29 106 497
and casthouse 931 434
Achinsk Alumina Plant 1 052 000 1 034 500 1,69 18 000
Nikolayev Alumina Plant 1 198 000 1 126 000 6,39 72 000
The sales included exports, which grew from $3.4 billion to $3.7 billion.
Smelter 2003 2002 % Tonnes
Bratsk 930 539 915 882 1,60 14 657
Krasnoyarsk 903 491 864 872 4,47 38 619
Sayanogorsk 459 002 413 864 10,91 45 138
Novokuznetsk 295 899 287 814 2,81 8 085
RusAl increased alumina production 38% to 2.982 million tonnes.
Company 2003 2002 % Tonnes
Samara Metallurgical Plant 173 868 199 404 -12,81 - 25 536
products Aluminum semis 48 589 61 837 214 764 221 728 -3,14 -6 964 Bauxites and alumina (tonnes): Compagnie de
Bauxites de Kindia 2 071 437 1 822 935 13,63 248 502 (Guinea) - bauxites Alumina Company of Guinea - 2 279 984 bauxites
Alumina Company of Guinea - 731 918 alumina
Sayanal 35 304 33 369 5,80 1 935
Armenal 10 476 5 372 95,01 5 104
ROSTAR ('000 beverage 994 753 809 145 22,94 185 608
cans) 000 000 000
ROSTAR ('000 ends) 1 506 919 1 448 360 4,04 58 559 000
000 000
DOZAKL ('000 cans) 57 870 000 82 174 000 -29,58 - 24 304
000
DOZAKL ('000 ends) 111 480 99 745 000 11,77 11 735 000
000
Russian Aluminum accounts for over 70% of the primary aluminum
RusAl created an Engineering and Technical Center which enabled the company to develop a universal program to upgrade
smelting processes. This resulted in output growth of 10.9% at the Sayanogorsk smelter and 4.47% at the Krasnoyarsk
smelter. Primary aluminum (tonnes):
Downstream units (tonnes):
(SMZ) Belaya Kalitva 41 430 38 447 7,76 2 983 Metallurgical Plant (BKMPO)
production in Russia and about 10% of world production.
Shareholders of Basic Element led by Oleg Deripaska control 75% of RusAL, and Sibneft shareholders led by Roman
Abramovich control the other 25%. The Sibneft shareholders' stake is managed by Millhouse Capital.
RusAl's biggest dopwnstream units are the Samara Metallurgical Plant (SMZ) and Belaya Kalitva Metallurgical
Production Association (BKMPO).
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