Business Standard

Monday, February 03, 2025 | 08:51 AM ISTEN Hindi

Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Nalco's alumina exports to halve in 3-4 years, to impact profit margins

Nalco's internal consumption of alumina is poised to go up as the navratna company is going for brownfield expansion of its aluminium smelter at Angul

nalco
Premium

Jayajit Dash Bhubaneswar
Alumina exports by National Aluminium Company (Nalco) are set to halve over the next three to four years as the company looks at higher conversion to aluminium and value-added products.
Each year, Nalco exports around one million tonne of surplus alumina. Nalco's internal consumption of alumina is poised to go up as the navratna company is going for brownfield expansion of its aluminium smelter at Angul. Nalco is adding 0.6 million tonne capacity at Angul where its current rated capacity is 0.46 million tonne per annum (mtpa).
"If our new smelter comes up, it will consume 1.2 million tonne of alumina each

What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in