The facility supplies 48% of products to customers in the domestic market, and 52% are exported.

Powder Metallurgy Ltd. was established in 1998 when the powder metallurgy operation was established as a separate division from the Irkutsk aluminium smelter. The facility began operations in 1976 when the powder metallurgy shop was constructed by the Russian National Aluminium and Magnesium Institute (VAMI), which is located in St. Petersburg.

The production facility is located in the industrial zone of Shelekhov, 20 kilometres from Irkutsk, near large transportation hubs.  The ‘Powder metallurgy’ production facility has branches in Krasnoturyinsk (Sverdlovsk Region) and in Volgograd. Total headcount is 700 people.

Geography
Shelekhov is a town in the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation with a population of 55,100. The region, which encompasses 676,900 square kilometres and has a total population of more than 2.7 mln, is served by a railway station called Goncharovo. The town has an aluminium smelter, cable and timber plants. The region is part of the Siberian Federal District.

Technology

‘Powder metallurgy’ has been producing aluminium powders, pigment and pyrotechnic aluminium dust of various chemical compositions and granular sizes for 30 years. Technological processes are constantly modernised, thus it is possible to adjust granular sizes and chemical composition according to customer demand.

‘Powder metallurgy’ and its branches use classical technology to produce aluminium powder by pulverising liquid aluminium with heated nitrogen and dividing it in different fractions using vibration screens and rotary centrifugal classifiers.

Dry milling allows aluminium dust to be produced in pneumatic separation mills.

Certificates

The production facility has an integrated quality and environment management system which complies with ISO 9001:2000 and 14001:2004 international standards. The facility is regularly audited by National Quality Assurance (Great Britain) to ensure.

All packages are certified in compliance with national and international requirements for transportation of hazardous goods.

Environment

The environment management system complies with all the international standards. The facility’s operations haven’t been fined or sanctioned by the environmental protection authorities.

Management

• Managing Director: Leonid Golubtsov
• Chief Engineer: Vladimir Nebesnykh
• Production Director: Sergei Zmanovsky
• Chief Accountant: Valentina Pazdnikova
• Head of Personnel and Legal Unit: Alexei Olshevsky
• Head of Foreign Economic Activities: Alexander Khalyavin
• Director of PM-Krasnoturyinsk: Vasily Burov
• Director of PM-Volgograd: Alexander Molykov

Contact information

Managing Director’s office:
Tel. 7 (3952) 5-21-00
Fax: 7 (395) 5-22-33
E-mail: pm@sual-pm.ru

Office of the Director of PM-Krasnoturyinsk:
Tel. /Fax: 7 (34314) 4-65-10
Office of the Director of PM-Volgograd:
Tel. /Fax: 7 (8442)74-57-10