Despite Tough Aluminium Market, Nalco’s Financial and Production Numbers Up in the Last Quarter
India’s state-owned National Aluminium Company (Nalco) released results for the third quarter of the current fiscal year last week. The...
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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...
Nalco Inks Power Deal with Plant to Fuel New Aluminium Smelting Capacity
India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) announced an agreement last week to purchase eighty percent of the power produced by the...
Indian Aluminium Firms Increase Push for Minimum Import Price
India’s aluminium producers have ramped up the call for a minimum import price (MIP) on the metal as the government’s...
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Nalco Considering Sale of Alumina to Vedanta
India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) may finally be given the green light to sell alumina to private-sector rival Vedanta plc, as the Indian government has requested the state-owned firm to look into sales of the aluminium precursor to the London-based miner. Both Nalco and Vedanta operate refineries and smelters in the eastern state of Odisha, […]
Nalco Partners with NTPC Ltd on New 1 MTPA Aluminium Smelter in Odisha
India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) announced earlier this week that it plans to build a new greenfield smelter at Kamakhyanagar in the state of Odisha. The project, which is expected to cost ₹360 billion (US$5.3 billion), will be built in conjunction with NTPC Limited, a power company owned by the Indian government. Plans include building […]
India’s Nalco Pressured Against Value Addition: Mines Minister
The domestic market has been the biggest obstacle facing state-owned National Aluminium Co. Ltd (Nalco) in its effort to transition into greater value addition for its alumina, India’s Union Minister of Energy, Coal, Mines and New and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal told an audience on Friday. According to Goyal, the Central PSU exports most of […]
Indian Aluminium Producers Seek Relaxation of Duties on Caustic Soda
Several Indian aluminium manufacturers, including Vedanta Ltd, Hindalco Industries Ltd, and National Aluminium Co. Ltd (Nalco) have petitioned their government to exempt domestic alumina producers from the anti-dumping duties on caustic soda. Known formally as sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and informally in some regions as “lye,” caustic soda is an metallic base and alkali inorganic compound […]
Indian Aluminium Producers Forecast Double-Digit Demand Growth
India’s aluminium industry is on the rebound after a period of lower demand, according to domestic aluminium firms. Double-digit growth is on the horizon, they say, thanks to significant increases in automotive sales and industrial activity. Domestic aluminium producers also point to an increased public investment in infrastructure, reforms in the country’s power sector, and […]
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
