North India, with its fast-growing industrial ecosystem, is expanding its industrial hub, which has now become the foundation of the country's aluminium extrusion sector. Cities like Delhi-NCR, Haryana's automobile hubs, Rajasthan's engineering clusters and rising real estate sectors spanning across Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, are growing as a crucial part of India's aluminium supply chain.
Major sectors like solar panel manufacturing, infrastructure and construction are the dominant consumers of India's aluminium extrusions. Alongside these sectors, the burgeoning real-estate market, especially in the Delhi-NCR area, is increasing the demand for aluminium extrusion for architectural profiles, likely doors, curtain walls and windows.
The demand is also further spurring from Rajasthan and Haryana due to the wake of engineering hubs and automobile sector demands for adopting lightweight metals with higher precision extruded products for building vehicle components and other industrial applications.
Not only this, cities like Rajasthan are deemed to be playing a double role by upholding a manufacturing base with a fast-paced industrial ecosystem. This industrial ecosystem ranges from Bhiwadi-Alwar, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Sikar, to Kishangarh. Beyond this, the distribution centres are located in strategic locations, which aid in serving critical markets like Delhi-NCR and its surrounding cities.
Tracing back to 2022, the country achieved a landmark moment when an extrusion plant located in Bhiwadi was acquired by Jindal Aluminium, which added 14,000 tonnes per annum capacity, boosting the region's capability to meet the surging demand in the times to come.
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Irrespective of such an unmatchable growth trajectory and being the third-largest aluminium producer with its own reserves of bauxite, sustained raw material prices, the Indian extrusion sector faces specific disputes that the industry will continue to face in 2025. These challenges include:
These challenges pose a direct challenge to the domestic MSMEs, which are gauged as the backbone of the Indian extrusion industry.
As an outcome, these challenges reduce the overall utilisation of the installed aluminium extrusion, which is around 2 million tonnes, whereas the actual capacity stands at 3.5 million tonnes per annum. The remaining 1.4 million are fulfilled with imports.
The mounting prominence of Central and North India would be significantly highlighted in an upcoming event, "ALUMEX India 2025", which is being organised by the Aluminium Extrusion Manufacturers Association of India (ALEMAI).
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This event is considered India's first as well as the only expo which is wholly dedicated to the region's aluminium extrusion platform. ALUMEX India 2025 is scheduled to take place from September 10 to 13 in New Delhi, where more than 200 exhibitors and 12,000 business visitors covering the entire aluminium value chain will be participating.
Jitendra Chopra, President of ALEMAI, stated, "North India is the biggest manufacturer and market for the aluminium extrusion industry in India. The region is well placed to serve both domestic and international markets. Through ALUMEX India 2025, we aim to highlight North India's strengths, create opportunities for collaboration, and address the challenges facing the sector."
He further added, "The need of the hour is policy safeguards to ensure full utilisation of the domestic manufacturing capacity. MSMEs in particular require support against unfair imports so they can remain competitive. For the industry to thrive, there needs to be a balance between open trade and protecting local industry and jobs."
The platform of ALUMEX India 2025 will set the stage to talk through these challenges and make a proper chart for the future implications, mainly focusing on the localisation of technologies, MSMEs support from the government and identifying the global demand trends.
ALUMEX India 2025 will be supported by primary Indian aluminium and other relevant industry leaders like Vedanta, Hindalco, the Ministry of MSMEs and JNARDDC (an autonomous body under the Ministry of Mines).
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