News. Russian non-ferrous metallurgy news. June

Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and a major producer of nickel, platinum and copper, announces that shareholders held the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 27 June 2025. The shareholders also approved the annual report for 2024, new version of the Articles of Association, Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) accounts for 2024, the consolidated financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)fin for 2024, elected the Board of Directors ...

The Norilsk Nickel Palladium Technology Center managed to cut time for laboratory development and tests of palladium-based materials technologies to 9 months, which is 2 times faster than foreign companies do, the center's Director Dmitry Izotov told TASS on sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. "We have managed to reach the development and laboratory testing term of 9 months, against 18-24 months foreign companies have. We use a hybrid approach: on the one hand, for ...

Boeing's exit from the Russian market hurt the company, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov. At the meeting, Putin asked about the current state of Rostec’s titanium production. "Of course, our plant is operating, though perhaps not at full capacity," Chemezov replied. "We’re primarily supplying our own aviation and helicopter manufacturers. Since the Americans left, our joint venture with Boeing has unfortunately been put on hold, so production volumes ...

RUSAL, one of the world's largest aluminium producers, has announced the largest carbon credit deal to date on the Russian market. The deal was executed for the benefit of a participant in the Sakhalin Experiment for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon credits involved in the deal were issued in the national Carbon Units Registry as a result of RUSAL’s forest climate initiative. This project, which holds the official status of a "Partner of National Projects," focuses on aerial forest ...

Russia will be able to double copper production in 15 years through the implementation of a number of current and prospective projects, and copper will always be needed - it is the most sought-after metal in the green energy sector, said Oleg Kazanov, Head of Rosnedra, in an interview with RIA Novosti ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. According to him, everything is "quite good" with copper in Russia. The country has about 100 million tons of reserves, 1.1 million tons ...

In the first five months of 2025, Russian aluminum shipments to Brazil grew 2.3 times year-on-year to $7.9 million. According to Brazilian customs data, this is the maximum figure since 2022. The main supplier of aluminum to the Brazilian market remains China, which increased exports by a third - up to 254.8 million dollars. Argentina (+40%, up to 157.7 million dollars) and Paraguay (+70%, up to 58.1 million dollars) also supplied significant volumes of metal. In addition to aluminum, Russia ...

Russia may become a leader in extraction and processing of rare-earth metals (REM), if it manages to create infrastructures and comfortable business conditions in the Arctic, while the global industry will face a deficit in REM in 2030, Russian Academician, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy Nikolay Pokhilenko told TASS. At the International Arctic Forum in April, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the creation of a rare-earth metals processing industry in the Arctic is one of priorities in ...

RUSAL, one of the world's largest aluminium producers, has launched commercial production of Primary Equivalent Foundry Alloys (PEFA) with post-consumer scrap content for the automotive industry. The project has been realised at Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter (IrkAZ) along with increasing the share of recycled metal in the alloys that now reaches up to 40%. RUSAL started trial production of PEFA with 20% of aluminium end-of- life scrap in early 2023 and has been gradually increasing the recycled ...

Russia’s gold and primary aluminium output rises in April 2025 However, compared to March 2025, the output declined by 3.8%. In total, for the January-April 2025 period, gold production increased by 6% year-on-year. The production of primary aluminum in April rose by 5.3% compared to April of the previous year, but decreased by 0.7% from March 2025. Over the January-April 2025 period, the output of primary aluminum increased by 2.6% year-on-year. Subscription to news