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...
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Vedanta Wins Award For Digital Transformation At Jharsuguda Aluminium Smelter
London-based aluminium producer Vedanta took home the ‘Most Innovative Best Practice’ Award at the Digital Transformation (DX) Summit & Awards 2020 earlier this week. The award, which is administered by CII – Centre for Digital Transformation (CDT), is intended to recognize worthwhile...
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...
Alumina Production Costs Fall While Refining Rates Rise In Vedanta’s Third Quarter
According to numbers for the just-ended quarter, metals miner Vedanta refined more alumina at a lower cost than previous quarters...
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Vedanta To Deploy GE’s Digital Smelter Technology At Jharsuguda Aluminium Smelter
London-based metals miner Vedanta Ltd. and American multinational conglomerate General Electric Company (GE) jointly announced yesterday that they have agreed to place GE’s digital smelter technology in Vedanta’s Jharsuguda smelter in an effort at improving the site’s productivity and efficiency. The partnership between the two firms is the first such installation at any aluminium smelter […]
Vedanta Pondering Purchase Of Government Stake In Two Co-Owned Mineral Firms
Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Ltd. is considering buying a majority share in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the remaining share of in Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) from the Indian government according to domestic news reports. At present Vedanta owns a 46.71-percent stake in BPCL and a 64.92-percent stake in HZL. The government of India owns […]
Vedanta Plans Flat-Rolled Aluminium Plant For Eastern India
A top official at Indian aluminium smelter Vedanta told local media this week that his firm plans to enhance its value-added portfolio with the construction of a INR2,500 crore aluminium flat rolled products plant. The Chief Executive Offiecer of Vedanta Aluminium and Power Ajay Kapur said that the move will be part of a larger […]
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 bauxite and coal mines. Such was the message conveyed by the Jharusguda plant’s incoming Chief Executive Officer Chhavi Nath Singh to domestic media late last week. “We are still importing 40% of our bauxite requirement […]
Vedanta To Open India’s First Primary Foundry Alloy For Aluminium Alloy Wheels
Indian aluminium smelter Vedanta Ltd. announced last week the launch of its Primary Foundry Alloy (PFA) which it will utilize to produce aluminium alloy for India’s automotive sector. Making the announcement at last week’s 59th Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) Annual Convention 2019, Vedanta’s dedicated 240 thousand metric ton per annum aluminium alloy foundry […]
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 ...
