MOSCOW (Kyodo) The Russian chief of the world's largest aluminum producer, Rusal, has called on Japanese companies to take part in a project to build a nuclear power-generating and aluminum-making industrial complex in the Russian Far East.
"We'd like to cooperate with Japanese companies and we'd like to bring them to participate in this project," Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska said in a recent interview, mentioning Hitachi Ltd. as one company he has in mind.
Deripaska, 40, is the owner of investment company Basic Element, which has Rusal under its wing. Aluminum production requires huge amounts of electricity.