Alumina’s journey through 2025: A year known for ambition, friction and recalibration
The story of alumina in 2025 saw every up and down possible and at the same time raced to re-engineer itself to minimise shortfall. The global alumina industry moved in jolts with a plethora of incidents like capacity added in one geography while written off in another, environmental scrutiny tightening just as governments chased self-sufficiency, and supply chains re-routed not by demand, but by policy and power costs.
One of the key pieces of good news came from India. Vedanta’s Lanjigarh refinery reaching 5 million tonnes per annum capacity marked India’s shift in upstream posture. Alumina could no longer be tagged as a supporting input but as a core strategic asset for rapidly developing economies like the aforesaid nation. That intent sharpened with Vedanta’s INR 1 lakh crore aluminium-alumina expansion blueprint, positioning the country to reduce exposure to imported intermediates while anchoring domestic smelting growth.
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