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Metso Outotec To Provide Bauxite Grinding Equipment For NALCO’s Damanjodi Alumina Refinery

Metso Outotec To Provide Bauxite Grinding Equipment For NALCO’s Damanjodi Alumina Refinery

India’s National Aluminium Company (NALCO) has chosen Finnish mining operations and technology firm Metso Outotec to engineer and deliver a bauxite grinding package to its Damanjodi Alumina Refinery. On Thursday Metso Outotec made the announcement, saying that the project would be part...

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Events

Nalco Nixes Overseas Expansion Projects to Focus on Increasing Domestic Capacity

Nalco Nixes Overseas Expansion Projects to Focus on Increasing Domestic Capacity

India’s state-owned smelter National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) announced yesterday that all overseas projects have been put on hold so that the company could concentrate upon increasing its domestic capacity. Among the projects put on hiatus is Nalco’s investigation of building a smelting operation in Iran. “Iran’s proposal is attractive as long as gas prices […]

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Nalco Plans 150-mW Wind Power Facility in Odisha

Nalco Plans 150-mW Wind Power Facility in Odisha

India’s state-owned aluminium firm National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) announced a plan late last week to build a 150-mW wind power farm in Odisha. The plant, which could cost in the neighborhood of US$140 million, is intended to support Nalco’s one-million-metric-ton capacity expansion at facilities in the eastern state. “While the Nation is transforming into […]

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Nalco to Meet Rising Demand with Increased Output: CMD Chand

Nalco to Meet Rising Demand with Increased Output: CMD Chand

India’s National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) is planning on taking advantage of increasing domestic consumption and recovering aluminium prices by increasing output by 3.5%. So says its chairman Tapan Kumar Chand in interviews this week. “Nalco is ramping up this production […] to take advantage of growing consumption in the domestic market, and […] to […]

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Nalco Declares Forty Percent Dividend for FY 2015-16

Nalco Declares Forty Percent Dividend for FY 2015-16

India’s state-owned aluminium firm National Aluminium Company (NALCO) declared a forty percent dividend at the firm’s 35th annual General Meeting in Bhubaneswar. This represent the biggest dividend declared by the firm since its capital restructuring in the spring of 2011. Managing director Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand congratulated the stakeholders on allocation of Odisha’s Pottangi Bauxite […]

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Nalco Moves Planned Plant to Angul

Nalco Moves Planned Plant to Angul

India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) intends to construct its second aluminium smelter and power station within the confines of its existing plant at Angul and not at Sundergarh as originally planned. The firm says building the plant at the new location will cost US$2.1 billion. Nalco says that of the total cost, the 400 thousand […]

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