Update on Hindalco’s plan for Odisha
Aluminium, Bauxite, Birlas, Rayagada, Rayagada- Therubali September 14th. 2010, 12:46pmFollowing is from a report in http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/HeadlineNews/Metals/7176480/.
India’s Hindalco Industries expects to start up its new alumina refinery in the state of Orissa in September 2011, with commercial sales to begin from December, company sources said Tuesday.
Construction on the 1.5 million mt/year refinery began in 2007, and is about 50% done. Based at Rayagada, it will be managed by wholly owned subsidiary Utkal Alumina International Ltd, which is also establishing two bauxite mines at Rayagada and Kalahandi that are also slated to start up next September. The refinery and mines are about 20 km apart and will be linked by a conveyor belt.
Hindalco will eventually use most of the refinery’s alumina for its own production of aluminum, but there will be surplus output for sale, initially 780,000 mt/year, then dropping to 60,000 mt/year around July 2012 when the second of the group’s two new smelters come online.
The firm has a 360,000 mt/year smelter in the state of Madhya Pradesh that is to be completed in July 2011, followed by another unit of a similar size in Orissa a year later.
In addition, plans are underway to double the alumina refining capacity in Orissa to 3 million mt/year by 2014, by which time Hindalco is expected to sell about 50% of the new output.
The alumina expansion will be complemented with further aluminum capacity increases although details have not been announced. The group is also planning to raise its bauxite output at Orissa by 4 million mt/year to 8.5 million mt/year along with the refinery expansion.
September 15th, 2010 at 2:12 am
That is a good news. But why don’t we push for the down line industries which will process the metals produced in the state. This will create more job and revenue for the state. I am not sure about the utilization of aluminium for the final products within the state.
September 18th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Debi Prasad Sir is absolutely right I wonder why Govt has not done anything for it.I am working as Project engineer.Recently in one of our customers plant (manufacturing Piston) I got they are using raw aluminium that is brought from NALCO, what was written on that Aluminium slab.Govt should attract such type of industries to Odisha by bringing up some benefits for them so that they would set up plant here.I have seen many Industrial places across India that time if you look back Odisha you would get nothing.Some Govt introduced tax benefit to companies for example Uttarakhand in Rudrapur and Haridwar what really worked.Odisha has much more benefit than that, if not could be created for such type of small scale industries.