Queensland Alumina Ltd (QAL)
Gladstone
Results in 2019
1,700 ktpa
total capacity and utilisation rate, 99%
1,690 kt
production level
Nikolaev Alumina Refinery is the second largest producer of alumina the former Soviet states in terms of production capacity. The facility was launched in 1980.
The refinery’s bauxite is predominantly sourced from the Metals segment’s Compagnie des Bauxites de Kindia, while additional raw materials are delivered by Bauxite Company of Guyana also operated by the Group and from the Weipa mine in Australia.
Produced alumina is sent for smelting to the Group’s facilities (Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Sayanogorsk aluminium smelters) as well as to third parties.
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