Rusal has started a website dedicated to aluminium

​Rusal has started a website aluminiumleader.com for its 15-year anniversary. The website contains the information upon the history, production and application of aluminium in Russian and English.

The head of the casting department of the Irkutsk aluminium plant, P. Kuzmin, says that aluminium production begins with the extraction of bauxites. After that bauxites are crushed, dried and grinded at mills along with a small volume of water. A thick mass is collected into reservoirs and headed by steam so as to separate the larger part of silicon contained in bauxites. Clay is loaded into reservoirs with melted cryolite at the temperature of 950 degrees Celsius. Current flow up to 400 kA separates the connection between the atoms of aluminium and oxygen as a result of which the metal in liquid form is collected in 2 reservoirs. Primary aluminium is cast in ingots and sent to consumers, and used or further production of aluminium alloys.

Rusal mainly produces aluminium in ingots of 6, 10, 15 and 22 kg. Aluminium is the most widespread metal on Earth. It doesn’t exist in pure form in nature, only in various mixtures and alloys.