In 2006, the smelter produced 23,500 tonnes of aluminium, a 2.5% year-on-year increase over 2005.

The energy for the smelter is supplied by the Volkhov Hydropower Plant, which forms part of the Lenenergo system, the largest regional energy supplier in Russia’s northwest.

The smelter employs 514 people.

Geography
The Volkhov Aluminium Smelter is located in Volkhov, a small town in the St.Petersburg Region of Russia. Its population is 50,000 people. Volkhov has a large railway junction serving as a crossroads to all points of the Russian Railway network, and mooring and cargo handling facilities on the Volkhov River that provide access to the Saint Petersburg and Murmansk sea ports. In addition to the smelter, the town hosts a hydropower plant and chemical and cement enterprises.

Process technology

In September 1999, the smelter completed modernisation of its reduction area. The smelter is equipped with cutting-edge pre-bake pots designed by the Russian National Aluminium & Magnesium Institute, or VAMI.

Development and Environment

The smelter’s key areas for improvement by 2010 are as follows:

• Construction of dry gas scrubbers for the plant’s electrolysis area, to reduce harmful emissions and to improve the regional environment.
• Modernisation of the smelter’s Automated Process Control System.

Management

General Director - Nikolay Grachov

Contact information

Vaz@sual.ru

To learn more about the process of aluminium production, aluminium history and use please visit http://www.aluminiumleader.com/en/