Khakas Aluminium Smelter (russian: Хака́сский алюми́ниевый заво́д, ''Khakasskiy Alyuminiyevy Zavod'') or KhAZ (russian: ХАЗ) is an

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 ...

located near

Sayanogorsk Sayanogorsk (russian: Саяногорск; Khakas: , ''Naa Soyan Tura'') is a town in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located on the left bank of the Yenisei River, south of Abakan, the capital of the republic. Population: Geography The to ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

. Owned by the Russian aluminium industry champion

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 ...

, it is one of the largest companies in the Russia's

Republic of Khakassia Khakassia (russian: Хакасия; kjh, Хакасия, Хакас Чирі, ''Khakasiya'', ''Khakas Çiri''), officially the Republic of Khakassia (russian: Республика Хакасия, r=Respublika Khakasiya, ; kjh, Хакас Рес ...

. It was the first major aluminium plant opened in post-Soviet Russia. The construction began in 2004. The first metal was produced in December 2006, and the project capacity of 300,000 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 was achieved in October 2007. Total investment in the project reached $750 million.

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External links

Official site of the Khakas Aluminium Smelter
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