India’s Aluminium Industry Calls Upon Government To Cut Duties On Raw Materials
Last week India’s aluminium industry called upon New Delhi to cut basic customs duties on aluminium fluoride and other raw...
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Vedanta Plans Capacity Increase To 1.8 Million MTPA At Lanjigarh Alumina Refinery In Coming Fiscal Year
Indian aluminium producer Vedanta said last week it expects to ramp up production at its Lanjigarh alumina refinery by 300 thousand metric tons per annum in the coming fiscal year. The firm said it plans to ramp up the site’s existing capacity...
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...
Vedanta’s Jharusguda Plant Has Its Sights Set On Captive Bauxite And Coal Resources: Incoming CEO Singh
In order to remain among the world’s cheapest producer of aluminium, Vedanta Ltd. is working toward having its own captive...
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Indian Oil Corp Plans Project To Develop And Market Alumina-Based Batteries
Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) announced plans earlier this week to develop and research an alumina-based battery in an effort at reducing India’s dependency upon the People’s Republic of China for lithium supplies. IOCL execs told local media it has entered into a partnership with an unnamed overseas firm to begin the process. The firm is […]
India Aluminium Producers Working On Scrap Standards To Stem Rising Tide Of Imports
India’s aluminium producers are teaming up with planning think-tank Niti Aayog and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to retool the country’s standards for scrap aluminium usage in order to contain the rising tide of imported scrap aluminium and what stakeholders consider to be odd usages of it. Prompted by trade tensions between the governments […]
Indian Aluminium Producers Struggle Through Fall in Domestic Demand And Rise In Imports
Despite an aluminium demand growth in India of 7 percent in the April through June quarter, a tepid growth in consumption by major industries facing liquidity challenges held aluminium producers back in the quarter. According to reports in domestic financial media, aluminium sales by Indian firms were off by 10.8 percent in the quarter, losing […]
India’s Automotive Component Manufacturers Going All-In On Aluminium Forging
In a bid to position themselves to take advantage of the ever-tightening emission regulations and the rise of electric vehicles, several of India’s top automotive component manufacturing firms are investing in in-house aluminium forging. Several industry leaders and experts went on record in a report published by domestic media late last week regarding their increasing […]
Indian Firm Titagarh Firema To Build 102 Aluminium-Bodied Rail Coaches For Pune Metro
Indian multinational firm Titagarh Wagons Ltd’s wholly-owned Italian subsidiary Titagarh Firema S P A will be building over one hundred aluminium-bodied rail coaches for Pune Metro, marking the first time such coaches will be built on the subcontinent. Per local media, the Kolkata-based firm won the bid to produce 102 of the ultra-modern metro rail […]
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 ...
