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Govt plans to give fillip to aluminium industry
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The government of India is working on a mission plan including a technology roadmap to give a fillip to the aluminium industry. This would aid in evolving a national policy for a sustained growth of the Indian aluminium sector and also make it globally competitive, said ministry of mines secretary Vishwapati Trivedi.
At the sixth International Conference on Aluminium (INCAL) 2011 in Hyderabad on Tuesday, Trivedi said the Union ministry is now deliberating with stakeholders on this.
It would look at ways to enhance the per capita consumption of aluminium in India and exploit natural resources like bauxite and coal, he said.
The per capita consumption of aluminium in India is 1.8 kg compared to USA’s 22.3 kg, Japan’s 27.6 kg, Germany’s 38.2 kg and China’s 16 kg.
The technology roadmap, needed to reduce the power consumption, reduce the emissions by 25 per cent and reduce the cost of production, was being prepared by the department of science and technology (DST) jointly with the Aluminium Association of India (AAI).
AAI president and Hindalco Industries managing director D Bhattacharya said that Indian aluminium industry was at an inflection point in the back drop of production costs going up in the west.
India, when compared with US and Brazil, is growing fast in the aluminium segment, he said adding that Indian industry is ahead of global average growth rate expected to be 6.7 per cent between 2010 and 2016.
At the sixth International Conference on Aluminium (INCAL) 2011 in Hyderabad on Tuesday, Trivedi said the Union ministry is now deliberating with stakeholders on this.
It would look at ways to enhance the per capita consumption of aluminium in India and exploit natural resources like bauxite and coal, he said.
The per capita consumption of aluminium in India is 1.8 kg compared to USA’s 22.3 kg, Japan’s 27.6 kg, Germany’s 38.2 kg and China’s 16 kg.
The technology roadmap, needed to reduce the power consumption, reduce the emissions by 25 per cent and reduce the cost of production, was being prepared by the department of science and technology (DST) jointly with the Aluminium Association of India (AAI).
AAI president and Hindalco Industries managing director D Bhattacharya said that Indian aluminium industry was at an inflection point in the back drop of production costs going up in the west.
India, when compared with US and Brazil, is growing fast in the aluminium segment, he said adding that Indian industry is ahead of global average growth rate expected to be 6.7 per cent between 2010 and 2016.
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