RUSAL names former official as head of intl sales

The world's top aluminium producer, UC RUSAL , said on Wednesday it had set up an International Sales Directorate and appointed a former senior official, Steven Hodgson, as its head.

Hodgson was RUSAL's managing director for alumina in 2004-2006. Before the current appointment, he worked as chief executive and president of the Bauxite and Alumina Division of Rio Tinto Alcan.

Former RUSAL sales director Sergei Belsky will be responsible for sales in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States of the former Soviet Union.