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TAIGU CATHODE
RUSAL TAIGU CATHODE
 The RUSAL Taigu Cathode
plant, located 600 km from Beijing in the administrative centre of Taiyuan,
within the Shanxi Province, in the People’s Republic of China, was built in
2001. It specializes in production of cathode blocks, which are a key component
of the electrolytic cells required to produce aluminium. On 20 March 2008 UC
RUSAL closed the deal and acquired the plant.
The plant’s existing annual capacity is currently 9,300 tonnes of cathode
blocks and the company plans to increase this to 20,900 tonnes by 2010. The
total investment in the plant’s development is planned to exceed USD 20
million. The plant employs 430 people.
Products from the Chinese plants meet the demand for cathode blocks from UC
RUSAL’s smelters in Siberia. Current cathode producing capacity supplies about
30% of the company’s needs and the RUSAL Taigu Cathode expansion project will
enable UC RUSAL to raise this up to 60%.
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The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is
located in Central and Eastern Asia. It has the largest population in the world
(over 1.3 billion) and is the third biggest country in terms of territory (9.6m
square kilometres).
China is a space and nuclear power. China’s GDP is rated fourth among the
world’s economies.
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Technology
The RUSAL Taigu Cathode plant produces cathode blocks for electrolytic cells.
Cathode blocks are divided into bottom and side blocks, and side blocks in turn
are subdivided into side blocks and corner blocks. The production of cathode
blocks is based on a full technology cycle, from raw materials to final
products. This cycle has three stages of press operation, bake-out, and
mechanical treatment, which create the finished product.
To learn more about the process of aluminium production, aluminium history and
use please visit http://www.aluminiumleader.com/en/
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