WHAT WE DO / OUR
OPERATIONS / ALUMINIUM
DIVISION / URALS
SILICON
URALS SILICON
 Initially, the
Urals Silicon Plant was managed by the Urals Aluminium Smelter, but in 1998 it
was incorporated as an independent entity.
The plant is located in Kamensk-Uralsky, in the Sverdlovsk region. and was
originally commissioned in 1958.
Its main product is silicon metal. The production output in 2005 totalled 26,000
tonnes.
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Kamensk-Uralsky (Kamensk before 1940)
is a town in the Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation. It is located in
the south-east of the Middle Urals on the junction of the Kamenka and Iset
rivers (the basin of the Ob River), 100 km to the south-east of Yekaterinburg,
near a railway terminal. It is a regional centre founded in 1682, and has a
population of 189,200 people. The main industry sectors are represented by
ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy.
The Sverdlovsk region occupies an area of 194,800 square kilometres. It is
located in the east of the Middle and Northern Urals and the neighbouring West
Siberian Plain, and has a population of 4.58 mln. Yekaterinburg is the
administrative centre.
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Process technology
Production is based on the thermal method of silicon production in three-phase
heating furnaces. The quartzite from the Cheremshansk quartzite
mine serves as the raw material for production. This mine is the biggest and
highest quality quartzite deposit in Russia. Quartzite mining began in 1992.
The reserves exceed 45 mln tonnes, which will allow the mine to stay in
operation for 140 years. The annual output of the mine is more than
230,000 tonnes.
Certificates
Most of the production processes used by Ural Silicon were awarded ISO-9002
certification.
Management
General Director - Vladimir Filippov
Contact information
sualsi@kamensk.ru
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