#Braidy Industries

“Ashland, KY-based company, planning to become an aluminum alloys manufacturer for aluminum in the automotive & food & beverage industry.

In October 2020 Braidy Industries announced they are changing their name to Unity Aluminum.”

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“… In April 2019 #Braidy announced a joint project with RUSAL, a Russian aluminum company partially owned by the oligarch Oleg Deripaska.”

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‘Kentucky senator will try to claw back state's $15M investment in #Braidy Industries’

“The Kentucky General Assembly authorized the $15 million the state later invested directly in Braidy at the behest of former Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, but …”

courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…
“… but McDaniel, R-Taylor Mill, made it clear he thinks the time has come for the state to get that money back.”

#Braidy Industries
Unity Aluminum
Kentucky
courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…
“The company also generated controversy by attempting to partner w/the Russian aluminum company Rusal, which previously faced U.S. sanctions & offered to invest $200 million in the aluminum mill.

Haney said Rusal is no longer part of Unity’s financing.”

kentucky.com/news/state/ken…
“… #Unity does have an agreement with Rusal to supply aluminum slab, but Rusal will have no ownership and there will be no other collaboration with the Russian government or Russian citizens, said Barnardo Bulnes, Unity’s raw materials manager.”

#Braidy
kentucky.com/news/state/ken…
22 March 2021

‘Kentucky aluminum project could lose backer’

#Unity Aluminum, formerly #Braidy Industries, has lost the backing of Russia’s Rusal, at least temporarily.’

“Rusal announced its funding halt during a financial results conference call on…”

recyclingtoday.com/article/unity-…
“… on March 17, with the firm noting that it had ‘so far poured $65 million into the venture.’…

We put on hold any further investments of the project as per our agreement, and we still expect our partners to raise necessary financing after the COVID…”

recyclingtoday.com/article/unity-…
“‘Because we signed a mutual confidentiality agreement with Rusal, we don’t want to get into a lot of details about the Russian oligarch stuff,’ Haney stated.”

#Braidy Industries
Unity Aluminum
nkytribune.com/2021/09/nkys-c…
18 March 2021

‘Russian Company Bankrolling Troubled Kentucky Aluminum Plant Suspends Investments’

“According to a Bloomberg report, Rusal, the formerly blacklisted Russian company with a major stake in the 10-figure project, is suspending its …”

wuky.org/post/russian-c…
“… suspending its investments while it awaits word that its U.S. partners have raised the necessary funds. So far the company has sunk at least $65 million in the proposed mill, to be built by #Unity Aluminum, previously known as #Braidy Industries.”

wuky.org/post/russian-c…
‘Kentucky Gov. Beshear calls for ‘deep dive’ into aluminum mill promise’

“how the policymakers inside the last administration are somehow the presidents or senior executives of the company that they encouraged direct investments in or let them out of …”

wsaz.com/2021/10/02/ken…
“During a Thursday press conference, Beshear said his concerns dated back to when he was still serving as attorney general. …

Beshear said #Braidy Industries was basically a start-up.”

kentuckytoday.com/state/beshear-…

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