Rusal’s 2010 Al output up 3%, alumina up 8%

摘要

Russia’s Rusal produced 4.083 million mt of alu-nminum in 2010, up 3% from 2009, the company nsaid Monday. Alumina output totaled 7.84 million nmt, up 8% from a year earlier, while bauxite pro-nduction totaled 11.8 million mt, up 4% over the nsame period, the company said in a statement. nAluminum output in the December quarter of 2010 nincreased 1% to 1.05 million mt from the October nquarter and 6% year on year in line with guid-nance, and due mainly to the progressive restart nin the year of operations mothballed during the nglobal economic slowdown in 2009, the company nsaid. Production increased at its Krasnoyarsk and nNovokuznetsk smelters in Russia and Kubal in nSweden, while potline 5 at its Irkutsk aluminum nsmelter in Russia, which was commissioned in nApril 2010, had reached full capacity by end-nJune and operated at full capacity throughout the nSeptember and December quarters, Rusal said. nAlumina output in the December quarter totaled n2.082 million mt, up 2% from the September quar-nter and 11% year on year, but below guidance due nto a delay in restarting the Widalco Ewarton alu-nmina refinery in Jamaica caused by heavy tropical nrains and a hurricane. Rusal announced Monday nthat Ewarton will restart July 1. In addition, the nAchinsk and Bogoslovsk alumina refineries in nRussia missed production growth targets, Rusal nsaid. Rusal said it targets increasing aluminum nproduction by 2% in 2011 from 2010 by boosting noutput at its smelters in Siberia, and raising alu-nmina production by 8% year on year in 2011 due nto the restart of Ewarton.