How alumina from a Limerick refinery enters Russia’s weapons supply chain
A new investigation has shown the supply chain link between Russian missiles – ones used to deadly effect in Ukraine – and a factory in Limerick.
Aughinish Alumina was built near the Shannon Estuary in the 1980s to make alumina using raw bauxite from Guinea and Brazil.
A major employer in the area, it changed hands in 2006 when it was bought by a company called Rusal which at the time was controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaskaa.
It has become one of the Europe’s biggest sources of the vital raw material. Alumina is a key part of the car and aircraft industry. It is also the bedrock of…
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