Boguchany Aluminium Smelter (russian: Богуча́нский алюми́ниевый заво́д, ''Boguchanskiy Alyuminiyevy Zavod'') is a Russian

aluminium smelter Aluminium smelting is the process of extracting aluminium from its oxide, alumina, generally by the Hall-Héroult process. Alumina is extracted from the ore bauxite by means of the Bayer process at an alumina refinery. This is an electrolyti ...

currently being constructed near the settlement of Tayozhny, in the Boguchansky District of

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Si ...

. It is one of the largest development projects of the

RUSAL United Company RUSAL, international public joint-stock company (russian: МКПАО «ОК РУСАЛ», MKPAO «ОК RUSAL») is the world's second largest aluminium company by primary production output (as of 2016). It was the largest until ov ...

company, which is building this new aluminium plant in partnership with

hydroelectricity Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...

producer

RusHydro RusHydro (previous name: Hydro-OGK, russian: РусГидро) is a Russian hydroelectricity company. As of early 2012 it had a capacity of 34.9 gigawatts. In late 2009, it was the world's second-largest hydroelectric power producer and is ...

. Each side owns a 50% stake in the ''Boguchany Energo-Metallurgical Union'' (russian: Богучанское энерго-металлургическое объединение, or russian: БЭМО, BEMO), a company that governs the construction of the new smelter, which is expected to use the energy from RusHydro's

Boguchany Dam The Boguchany Dam (russian: Богучанская ГЭС) is a large hydroelectric dam on the Angara River in Kodinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It has an installed capacity of 2,997 MW. Construction of the power plant was completed when a n ...

(a new hydropower station expected to be launched in 2011). The project capacity of the plant is 600,000 tons of

aluminium Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. I ...

per year.BEMO
at the

official site Total investment in the project is estimated to reach $2 billion. Over 1500 workers will work at the main production facility, while another 1500 jobs will be created in the supporting facilities. The smelter was scheduled to be launched in 2013.

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official site {{in lang, ru Buildings and structures in Krasnoyarsk Krai Rusal Companies based in Krasnoyarsk Krai Aluminium smelters