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...
Pottangi Bauxite Mines
Nalco Holds Unexpectedly Positive Meeting With Pottangi Residents Over Bauxite Mining Plan
Negotiations for a Nalco bauxite mining project in Pottangi took an unexpected turn last week, as villagers attending a meeting on the subject lent it their conditional support. The Koraput Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) invited villagers from the nearby settlements of...
Nalco Seeks Nod to Open Bauxite Mines at Pottangi
In a bid to secure another stable stream of bauxite ore to feed its slate of new projects, India’s state-run...
Nalco to Open New Bauxite Mine at Panchpatmali
A senior official in India’s government told domestic media this week that state-owned National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) recently begun...
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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 […]
Nalco to Commence Construction at Damanjodi in February
India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) expects to begin construction to expand its alumina refinery in Damanjodi next February, according to reports. The expansion will boost the plant’s output by one million tons per annum. The firm’s expansion would see a fifth stream added to the plant, which would raise its total output to 2.275 million […]
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 […]
Nalco Wins Mining Lease at Pottangi Bauxite Mines
India’s National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), announced today that it has been granted a mining lease for Odisha’s Pottangi Bauxite Mines, which is close in proximity to the firm’s 2.275 million metric ton alumina refinery. The lease, which is issued by Odisha’s Department of Steel & Mines, covers an area of about 4,295 acres for a […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
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 ...
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 ...
