NALCO To Invest ₹30,000 Crore On Expansions At Angul Aluminium Smelter
India’s National Aluminium Company (NALCO) is planning to invest over ₹30,000 crore (US$17.7 billion) through 2028 on expanding and diversifying...
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Metso Outotec Inks €13 MM Contract For Twin Flash Evaporation Alumina Plants With NALCO
Finnish mining operations and technology firm Metso Outotec announced last week a €13-million contract with India’s National Aluminium Company (NALCO) to deliver two 170 t/h Bayer-process flash evaporation plants to its plant in northern India. Metso Outotec will deliver the twin flash...
Supreme Court Orders Nalco To Sell Alumina To Vedanta
India’s National Aluminium Company (NALCO) was ordered by the country’s Supreme Court to deliver 30 thousand metric tons of metallurgical-grade...
India Steel Minister Pushes For Quick Completion Of Angul Aluminium Park
India’s steel minister Dharmedra Pradhan went on record Saturday in full support of a speedy completion to Angul Aluminium Park...
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Nalco Mulling Return To Long-Term Sales Contracts For Surplus Alumina
Citing a fall in global alumina prices, India’s state-run aluminium firm National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) said late last week that it will reboot its strategy regarding sales of the aluminium precursor, with a return to long-term contracts likely. Up until recently the firm has been selling spare alumina on the spot market in an […]
Nalco Debuts Custom Aluminium Alloy Designed For LED Production
In another move aimed at expanding its presence in the aluminium value-added market, Indian aluminium maker National Aluminium Company (Nalco) debuted a new aluminium alloy designed for use in the production of light-emitting diode (LED) lamp caps. The new aluminium alloy, christened Aluminium Alloy 1200 (AA 1200), is the product of significant research by the […]
Expected Tepid Response Delays Odisha’s Auction Of Bauxite Blocks
Despite residing above over half the country’s total known bauxite reserves, the Odisha government has yet to place a single block up for online auction to date. According to experts, state officials have thus far backed away from auctioning the blocks over concerns that the bauxite ore outcroppings will not draw the sort of significant […]
Nalco Plans Establishment Of Technology Division
India’s state-owned metals firm National Aluminium Company (Nalco) is planning to establish a new technology division in order to better position itself to take advantage of increasing demand from the country’s tech sector. In an interview with a domestic financial media outlet, Nalco’s chairman and managing director Tapan Kumar Chand said his company plans to […]
Nalco And Midhani Link Up To Form Aluminium Alloy Joint Venture
Indian state-owned aluminium producer National Aluminium Company (Nalco) and Indian Defence Ministry’s Mishra Dhatu Nigam (Midhani) announced last week a new joint venture that will manufacture aluminium alloy plate and sheet. Nalco made the announcement last Thursday after the close of the market, saying that the two firms have signed an agreement to incorporate a […]
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 ...
