RUSAL has announced the appointment of Mr Yuri Moisseev former MD of the Nadvoitsy aluminum smelter as the new MD of the Bogoslovsk aluminum smelter. Mr Alexander Krasovitski the current director of RUSAL Production Systems Department at RUSAL Krasnoyarsk is appointed to the position of MD of the Nadvoitsy smelter, whilst Mr Oleg Burkatski former MD of the Bogoslovsk aluminum smelter will take over from Mr Alexander Krasovitski as the new head of this department at the Krasnoyarsk aluminum smelter.

These appointments come as part of the RUSAL human resources development program focused on exchanging the best practices, enhancing executive expertise, raising operational efficiency and introducing the RUSAL production system on the Group’s production sites. Amidst the evolving economic climate, RUSAL has revised its strategy and set new objectives for the Aluminum Division which give more responsibilities and authority to the aluminum smelters and their managing directors.

Mr Alexey Arnautov head of the Aluminium Division said that “One of the key challenges for the heads of RUSAL’s production sites is to transform their facility into ‘a business unit’. The new management style at the aluminum smelters and the recently adopted motivation program will encourage the production sites to achieve the best possible performance, through a series of new opportunities such as channeling their own profit to the development of the technology and operations, as well as motivating their staff and promoting social projects for local communities.”

One of the key elements of increasing the effectiveness of the production process is RUSAL production system. Its introduction as a pilot project began at KrAZ under the management of Mr Oleg Burkatski 4 years ago. Today the smelter is creating an educational centre that will encourage sharing experience of production system introduction with other facilities of the company.