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Vedanta set to overtake Aditya Birla group as largest aluminium maker

Total capacity of Aditya Aluminium and Hindalco of Birla group is 1.32 mn tonne; in comparison, Vedanta is on course to clock 1.6 mn tonne this year

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Dillip Satapathy Bhubaneswar

Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta Ltd is poised to overtake Aditya Birla group as the largest producer of aluminium in the country in the current fiscal.

Vedanta, which produced 0.96 million tonne of aluminium across its two facilities in Odisha and Chhattisgarh, is on course to clock an annual output of 1.6 million tonne this year.

As against this, the combined capacity of Aditya Aluminium and Hindalco, subsidiaries of Birla group, across four locations in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh is 1.32 million tonne. The group, as a whole produced 1.26 million tonne aluminium in FY17.

The other major producer of aluminium, the public