Hindalco Plans To Commence Orissa Alumina Facility By January 2013

HindalcoHindalco Industries has planned to commence its 1.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) alumina plant in the state of Orissa by January next year (2013).

A senior company executive made this declaration on May 19.

Mr. Suryakant Mishra, chief executive of Utkal Alumina International Ltd (UAIL), a completly-owned division of Hindalco, stated that the non-ferrous metals maker also anticipates beginning mining bauxite in Orrisa by October 2012,

"We are planning to commission the refinery by December end or mid-January. Mining will start by October," he said.

Mr. Mishra stated that the company at first intends to mine 4.3 to 4.4 mtpa annum of bauxite to supply the refinery, though it has authorization to excavate 8.5 million tonnes.

Hindalco, part of the Aditya Birla Group, is lifting up its aluminium fabrication capacitance in the country to 1.9 million tonnes by the coming year at a cost of around $5 billion.

Novelis, its U. S.-based division, is the globe's biggest manufacturer of rolled aluminium items.