Aditya Aluminium lines up Rs 10,000-cr plan

Aditya Aluminium Ltd, a unit of AV Birla group company Hindalco Industries, has lined up Rs 10,000-cr expansion plan to ramp up capacity of its aluminium smelter and captive power plant (CPP) proposed at Jharsuguda in western Orissa. The aluminium company intends to double smelter capacity from 0.36 million tonne per annum (mtpa) to 0.72 mtpa and scale up CPP capacity from 900 Mw to 1,650 Mw. The task force on aluminium had urged the company to establish a campus of BITS-Pilani simultaneously along with the implementation of the project.