Nalco expects alumina sales volume to reach 4 lakh tonnes in Q4FY17

India's leading manufacturer and exporter of aluminium and alumina, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) remains upbeat about its Alumina business for the rest part of the current financial year as well as for the next fiscal. In its recently declared financial results for the 3rd quarter ended December 2016, the company registered production growth in Alumina along with other verticals.

Nalco produced 15.27 lakh tonnes of alumina hydrate, against 14,37 lakh tonnes achieved in the corresponding period of the previous year. Alumina sales volume for the quarter reached 3.11 lakh tonnes (3,11,000 tonnes), up seven per cent quarter-on-quarter and realization per tonne from the commodity improved by around US$18 or eight per cent from the previous quarter of the current fiscal.


The Navaratna central public sector enterprise is on an upward trajectory unlike other players in the global aluminium sector with integrated operations who are still facing strong commodity market headwinds. Nalco CMD, Mr Tapan Kumar Chand said in a recent interview that the company is pinning a lot of hope on its Alumina business for the coming quarters. In 4th quarter of the current financial year, it plans to sell around 4 lakh tonnes (4,00,000 tonnes) of alumina and in first quarter of the next financial year- 3-3.1 lakh tonnes.

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Nalco's current alumina production capacity stands at 2.2 million tonnes per annum. It produces 20 - 21 lakh tonnes alumina in a year, consumes 9 lakh tonnes for in-house aluminium production and sells around 4 lakh tonnes per quarter to the international market.

The company has set an annual production target of 21.30 lakh tonnes of alumina for 2016-2017. In July 2016, it signed a MoU with the Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India regarding higher financial and non-financial targets for the FY 2016-17. It may be mentioned that Nalco had produced 19.53 lakh tonnes of alumina in 2015-16.  

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