Creation of the United Company allowed to use extra financial capacities and
resources to develop assets that it comprises and to implement new investment
projects. The main goal is to upgrade, to introduce state-of-the-art production
practices and to look for new opportunities for development as an energy and
metals company. Investment projects of the United Company are aimed at securing
raw materials supply, creating own power-generating facilities, increasing the
production of aluminium and improving environmental indices thanks to the
introduction of modern technology....
Construction of an aluminium smelter near Irkutsk
 In
2006, RUSAL began early work to construct a 750,000 tonnes-per-annum greenfield
aluminium smelter in Taishet, a small town near Irkutsk. The construction is
expected to be completed in 2011....
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Modernisation of Irkutsk aluminium smelter
 United
Company RUSAL is carrying out large-scale modernisation of the Irkutsk
aluminium smelter, which was commissioned in 1962. The production facility uses
the 135-160kA Soderberg technology with vertical self-baking studs....
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Komi Aluminium Bauxite and Alumina Complex
 Komi
Aluminium Bauxite and Alumina Complex is the most ambitious construction
project in the global industry. This project will include a bauxite mine and a
1.4 mln tonnes-per-annum alumina refinery near the town of Sosnogorsk ...
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Boguchanskoye Energy and Metals Complex
 In
May 2006, RUSAL and HydroOGK, a subsidiary of RAO UES of Russia, signed a
cooperation agreement to jointly build the Boguchanskoye Energy and Metals
Complex....
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