Investor Presentaiton
En+
GROUP
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT
En+ Group Annual Report 2021
STRATEGIC REPORT
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
APPENDICES
Dear shareholders,
It has been an extremely challenging past two years.
The tragic images we see daily from Ukraine, where
En+ Group supports 4,500 employees, contractors,
and their families, affect all of us. We've also had our
share of tragedy from COVID across our employees
and their families. Our deepest sympathy and prayers
go out to those families who have lost a loved one.
The leadership and management of the Company
at all levels have reacted swiftly with efforts that
started in 2020 to alleviate these tribulations. Their
efforts included successfully constructing seven
health clinics to provide relief to existing healthcare
facilities overwhelmed with COVID-related caseloads
and provide for our greater global En+ community.
Against this backdrop, particularly with the ongoing
situation in Ukraine, it is challenging to bring focus to the
En+ Group's achievements in 2021. But the Group has
had significant success in all aspects of our businesses.
We have reduced debt by over 12% year over year,
benefiting from a more than 45% increase in the price of
aluminium during 2021, which also offset the impact of
inflation on raw materials. While aluminium production
was broadly unchanged year on year, totalling 3,764 kt in
the same period, sales of value-added products (VAPs)
increased by 18.1%; electricity production increased
by 10%; and hydropower output increased by 12.1%. In
2021, the Group produced approximately 5.6% of global
aluminium output and around 6.3% of the world's alumina.
Recognising our responsibility and commitment to a
cleaner and more sustainable world, and in fulfillment of
our pursuit to be the lowest carbon aluminium producer
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WE KNOW THAT
LOW-CARBON
ALUMINIUM IS
THE FUTURE."
Hon Christopher
Bancroft Burnham,
Chairman of the Board
in the world, in 2021 we announced our
commitment to transition to net zero by
2050 with a 35% reduction in emissions
by 2030. We know that low-carbon
aluminium is the future. In 2021, more
than 100 customers of the En+ Group
opted for our low carbon brand ALLOW,
with final sales of 955 kt out of total sales
of 3,904 kt. We also continue to pursue
cutting-edge technological innovations,
such as Rusal's development of inert
anodes for use in the production of
aluminium, which massively reduces carbon
emissions during the smelting process.
With eleven aluminium smelters, ten alumina
refineries, seven bauxite mines, and four foil
rolling mills across a dozen countries and five
continents, we are proud to be the largest
producer of aluminium outside of China,
accounting for 13% of the global aluminium
supply ex-China, and the third-largest in
the world. We are equally proud to be the
largest independent hydro power company
in the world, with a dozen hydropower
and combined heat and power plants. We
produced 90 TWh of electricity last year.
We could not have achieved this leadership
position without the almost 100,000
dedicated men and women who are part
of our global team across five continents
and in more than a dozen countries. On
behalf of the leadership and management
of our Group, we thank them for their hard
work and dedication to our shared future.
Stewardship and
Corporate Governance
We strive not to be just world-class in our
corporate governance: we pursue every
day to set the example and be the leader
within our peer group. Our commitment
to net zero carbon emissions by 2050
took a giant step forward in 2021 with the
success of our next-generation inert anode
electrolysers, allowing us to produce the
lowest carbon aluminium ever created.
Our proprietary technology eliminates
emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG)
from the reduction process while reducing
the cost of production by saving anodes.
Another breakthrough benefit of this
technology is the release of oxygen during
aluminium production, with one inert
anode cell generating the same volume
of oxygen as 70 hectares of forest.
One of the significant successes of the
past year was the completion of the
construction of the world's most advanced
low-carbon aluminium plant, the Taishet
Aluminium Smelter (TaAZ) in Siberia, which
is the third low-carbon aluminium smelter
to be built by Rusal, creating more than
1,000 local jobs. Once fully operational,
the smelter is expected to produce 428.5
kt of low-carbon aluminium per year
during its first phase. This development
further demonstrates our Metals segment's
commitment to the decarbonisation of its
operations and consumer supply chains.
Key Partnerships
Last year saw many other new projects
come online. We partnered in a pilot
project to produce an aluminium can with
the lowest-ever carbon footprint of any
beer can in Europe. We also announced
another inert anode partnership to
produce aerosol containers and other
containers to reduce the environmental
footprint of these products significantly.
We forged partnerships that will see
ALLOW, our low carbon aluminium
brand, delivered to new partners
who will collaborate on research and
development to produce innovative
alloys. We also secured a partnership
to use our low-carbon aluminium in
custom-made products to enable end
users to evaluate and trace the metal's
carbon footprint and energy source.
Committed to the Low
Carbon Economy
We are proud that our colleague, Alexey
Spirin, the En+ Group's Director of
Climate Risk and Environmental Risk
Management Department, joined the
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)
board. Lord Barker, then Group Executive
Chairman, was appointed in 2021 as
co-chairman of the Carbon Pricing
Leadership Coalition, a World Bank
Group administered partnership working
to implement universal carbon pricing
to limit atmospheric carbon emissions.
In the second half of 2021, the En+
decarbonisation pathway was submitted
to, and is currently undergoing verification
by, the Science Based Targets initiative
(SBTI). Together with our operations, these
appointments help our Company sit at the
heart of the action on climate change.
Lord Barker stepped down as Executive
Chairman of the En+ Group in March
after leading us through sanctions
removal and instilling a new corporate
focus on sustainability, profitability, and
stewardship. I cannot thank him enough
for his exceptional leadership over the past
four years and his unwavering dedication
to our shareholders and employees.
The challenges ahead of us this year
are significant. Chief among them is
the ongoing situation in Ukraine, which
has affected markets worldwide, and
our company directly. We are doing
our utmost to support our more than
4,500 employees and contractors in
Ukraine and their families and pray
for a swift and peaceful resolution.
Again, I want to thank Lord Barker and our
exceptional leadership and management
team and employees who have persevered
through the challenges of 2021 and the
first quarter of 2022 to produce electricity
to heat and run millions of homes and
businesses, as well as the finest aluminium
products for our global customers. Finally,
to you, our shareholders, thank you for
sticking with us through thick and thin.
Hon Christopher Bancroft Burnham,
Chairman of the Board
3.904 kt
total sales of aluminium
52%
share of VAPS in total sales
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