RUSAL and Braidy Industries will construct a greenfield aluminium rolling mill in Kentucky

RUSAL and Braidy Industries Inc., and NanoAl, a Northwestern University incubated materials research and technology company, have announced an intent to establish a joint project in Ashland, Kentucky, USA to produce flat rolled aluminium products for the US automotive industry. The design capacity of the rolling mill will amount to 500 thousand tons of hot rolled band and 300 thousand tons of fully finished cold rolled products on an annual basis. It will be the widest US-based cold rolling mill with a width of 104 inches. The output from the mill will aid towards rebalancing the anticipated deficit of the…