The Group's Alumina and Aluminium Division is the seventh largest supplier of traded alumina by volume in the world (Source: CRU, 2007).

The division comprises two separate business units: Aluminium of Kazakhstan (AoK) and Kazakhstan Aluminium Smelter (KAS), and integrates two bauxite mining units, a limestone mine, a power station, an alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.

In 2005 ENRC started the construction of Kazakhstan Aluminium Smelter, the first smelter in Kazakhstan, in Pavlodar, north-eastern Kazakhstan.

The smelting complex, which spans over 190 hectares, comprises two electrolysis facilities, a foundry, and a facility for the manufacture of anodes and other auxiliary branches of the smelter.  It is located within 10 km of the alumina refinery, which will supply the smelter's alumina, and within 26 km of the power station, which will supply the smelter with electricity.

Phase 1 of the construction, with initial capacity of 62,500 tonnes per annum and target capacity of 125,000 tonnes per annum, was completed in December 2007.  Phase 2, with a capacity of 250,000 tonnes per annum, is planned to be completed by 2011.

The Alumina and Aluminium Division currently sells alumina and various other products, including limestone and gallium, aluminium sulphate and fireclay, which are by-products of the alumina production process.  With the completion of the smelter, the division is poised to service the growing demand for aluminium both in the Republic of Kazakhstan and worldwide.