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HISTORY
2008
UC RUSAL acquires 25% plus two shares of Norilsk Nickel
UC RUSAL acquires the Baoguan cathode plant in China
UC RUSAL launches the ALSCON aluminium smelter
(Nigeria)
UC RUSAL launches two first potrooms of the 5th potline at the
Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter
2007
UC RUSAL launches full capacity of the Khakas Aluminium
Smelter.
A large-scale environmental modernisation of the Bratsk
Aluminium Smelter, the world's largest aluminium smelter, begins.
UC RUSAL starts construction of the Taishet Aluminium
Smelter.
UC RUSAL begins construction of Komi Aluminium, the
largest bauxite and alumina complex in Eurasia.
UC RUSAL and HydroOGK start construction of the Boguchansk
Aluminium Smelter.
The merger is completed and United Company RUSAL, the world’s largest aluminium
company, is created.
2006
The agreement for the establishment of United Company RUSAL by merging the
aluminium and alumina assets of three companies is signed: RUSAL, previously
the third largest global aluminium company; SUAL, one of the world’s top ten
players in the aluminium industry, and the alumina assets of Glencore
(Switzerland).
RUSAL buys the majority stake in the Aroaima Mining Company in Guyana.
RUSAL acquires the ALSCON Aluminium Smelter in
Nigeria.
RUSAL purchases a cathode plant in China.
RUSAL’s Alumina Division adds Eurallumina (an
alumina refinery in Italy) to its list of assets.
RUSAL commissions the Khakas aluminium smelter,
which, by today’s standards, is the most advanced aluminium production facility
in the world.
RUSAL signs an agreement with HydroOGK to biuld Boguchanskoye
Energy and Metals Complex.
RUSAL completes privatisation of the
Friguia alumina refinery in the Republic of Guinea.
2005
SUAL and RUSAL sign an agreement for joint participation as equal partners in
the Komi Aluminium project (construction of a
bauxite and alumina complex in the Komi Republic, Russia).
RUSAL completes the divestiture of its Samara and Belaya Kalitva rolling mills,
selling them to Alcoa.
RUSAL purchases a 20%-stake from Kaiser Aluminium in the world’s largest alumina
refinery QAL (Queensland Alumina Limited) located
in Australia, making RUSAL the largest Russian investor in Australia.
2004
RUSAL commissions Stage 2 of ROSTAR, a beverage can production facility in
Vsevolozhsk.
RUSAL buys the Boksitogorsk alumina refinery.
RUSAL becomes wholly owned by Basic Element.
SUAL reorganises its structure by adding the Volgograd
Aluminium Smelter, the Volkhov Aluminium Smelter
and the Pikalevo Alumina Refinery as
branches of SUAL.
SUAL buys the Zaporozhye Aluminium Complex in
Ukraine, the first of SUAL’s businesses outside of Russia.
2003
RUSAL acquires the
VAMI R&D institute in St Petersburg, Russia.
RUSAL’s holding company, Basic Element, increases its stake in RUSAL up to 75%.
SUAL, Access Industries (Eurasia) and Fleming Family and Partners, a group
of international investors based in the UK, sign a cooperation agreement and
announce plans to create a united international industrial group of companies.
SUAL approves new management structure.
2002
RUSAL acquires the Friguia alumina refinery in
the Republic of Guinea.
RUSAL founds an Engineering and Technology Centre (ETC).
SUAL buys out over 90% of the shares in the Nadvoitsy
aluminium smelter.
SUAL commissions a private railway between the Middle Timan bauxite deposit and
the regional railway network of the Komi Republic.
SUAL merges its aluminium assets with the aluminium business of SevZapProm. This
increases SUAL's assets to 19 production facilities including the
Volkhov and Volgograd aluminium smelters
and the Pikalyovo alumina refinery.
2001
RUSAL buys the controlling stake in the Novokuznetsk
aluminium smelter.
RUSAL begins to manage the operations at the CBK
mining complex in the Republic of Guinea.
SUAL purchases a 37% stake in the Nadvoitsy aluminium
smelter.
2000
RUSAL, which comprises the aluminium and alumina assets of Sibirsky Alumini
(Basic Element) and Sibneft, is created.
RUSAL buys the controlling stake in the ARMENAL foil
mill (Armenia) and the Belaya Kalitva rolling mill.
1999-2000
SUAL Managing Company (SUAL Holding) is created.
SUAL and Trustconsult merge their aluminium assets.
SUAL purchases the Bogoslovsk and
Kandalaksha aluminium smelters.
1997-1998
SUAL begins the prospecting of the Middle Timan bauxite
deposit.
1996
The Siberian and Urals Aluminium Company (SUAL) is created as a result of the
merger of the equities of the Irkutsk and
Ural aluminium smelters.
1974
The creation of Glencore (Switzerland), which became the world’s largest private
company, specialising in the production and processing of metals, and also in
the trading of metals, oil and agricultural products.
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