India’s electronics aluminium demand to grow 10.18% CAGR: Why aren’t makers benefiting from strong domestic production?
India’s aluminium smelters operate with some of the highest margins in the value chain, at around 10 per cent, but this profitability is not reflected among downstream manufacturers, where margins are closer to 5 per cent. These companies convert the metal into finished products such as heat sinks,...
India's ₹9,150b power grid push could drive new aluminium demand
India's planned transmission investment and renewable-energy expansion could lift aluminium consumption in electrical applications to 4 million tonnes by FY30. India's push to expand its electricity transmission network is emerging as a major potential growth driver for aluminium, with the...
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Hindalco Industries reports INR 1,750/t hike in aluminium billets price on June 5
Hindalco Industries Limited has raised its aluminium products price after cutting it on Friday, 04 June. With effect from Saturday 05 June 2021, aluminium billets price stands at INR 211,850 per tonne, up INR 1,750 per tonne or 0.83% from INR 210,100 per tonne on June 4. The wire rods and aluminium...
Vedanta increases its aluminium wire rod and billet prices by INR1750/t with effect from June 5
Vedanta Limited increased its aluminium products and aluminium ingot prices on Saturday, June 5, the next day after it cut the prices by INR 5,000 per tonne. The company expanded its aluminium wire rod price by INR 1,750 per tonne or 0.84 per cent to INR 211,000=218,500 per tonne, with effect from...
Vedanta cuts its aluminium ingots price by INR 5,000/t
Vedanta has cut its aluminium products price by more than 2%. With effect from Friday, 4 June 2021, the prices of some aluminium ingots have declined by INR 5,000 per tonne to stand at INR 201,750-214,750 per tonne as against INR 206,750-219,750- per tonne on June 2. The company’s billets price...
Road to $5 trillion economy, India’s untapped bauxite reserves to play a vital role
The metal aluminium stands as a crucial role player for all the major sectors that will shoulder the Indian economy to reach the goal of $5 trillion. The mammoth mineral resources and their exploitation have always remained as the backbone of the Indian metal sector including downstream production....
Hindalco Industries reports INR 6,000/t jump in its aluminium billets price
Hindalco Industries Limited has further expanded its aluminium products price. With effect from Wednesday, 02 June 2021, aluminium billets price has jumped by INR 6,000 per tonne or 2.88% to stand at INR 214,100 per tonne. The company had reported billets price of INR 208,100 per tonne on May 28....
Vedanta’s aluminium ingot price soars by INR6250/t on June 2 in line with LME aluminium price rally
Vedanta Limited has significantly expanded its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices for the third time in a row, with effect from Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Vedanta has raised its aluminium ingot price by INR 6,250 per tonne or 2.9 per cent to INR 206,750-219,750 per tonne on June 2. Last...
Maan Aluminium’s profit jumps 533.73% to INR 5.26 crore in March quarter 2021
Maan Aluminium reported sales of INR 163.27 crore in the March quarter 2021, up 65.74% from INR 98.51 crore during the previous quarter ended March 2020. Net profit jumped by 533.73% to stand at INR 5.26 crore in March quarter 2021. The company had reported net profit of INR 0.83 crore in March...
Recycled aluminium weekly recap: China's secondary aluminium operating rates down 0.25% in April; Nissan invests £52 million into scrap extraction
Right from a dip in secondary aluminium operating rates in China to Nissan’s £52 million investment into Sunderland facility for enabling the use of recycled and lightweight aluminium for the all-new Qashqai SUV, this week reported a plethora of events in the aluminium recycling industry. Let us...
Vedanta’s aluminium ingots price climbs by INR 3,250/t on May 28
Vedanta has continued to raise its aluminium products price by more than 1%. With effect from Friday, 28 May 2021, the prices of some aluminium ingots have inched up by INR 3,250 per tonne to stand at INR 200,500-213,500 per tonne from INR 197,250-210,250- per tonne on May 26. The company’s billets...
NALCO reduces its aluminium ingot price for the third time in a row to INR196,350-199,850/t
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has reduced its aluminium ingot and aluminium products prices for the third time with effect from Thursday, May 27. NALCO’s aluminium ingot price has come in at INR 196,350-199,850 per tonne after being reduced by INR 4,000 per tonne or 2 per cent from INR...
Anil Agarwal led Vedanta plans to invest INR 10,000 crore to set up ‘Aluminium Park’ in Odisha
Anil Agarwal led Vedanta Ltd., a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Limited, counted as one of the world's leading diversified natural resource companies plans to invest INR 10,000 crore in setting up an aluminium park in Odisha, an eastern state in India to encourage companies that use the metal to...
Vedanta raises its aluminium ingot price by INR 2,500/t on May 26
Vedanta has hiked its aluminium products price by more than 1%. With effect from Wednesday, 26 May 2021, the prices of some aluminium ingots have risen by INR 2,500 per tonne, standing at INR 210,250-197,250 per tonne from INR 207,750-194,750 per tonne on May 25. The company’s billets price stands...
Aditya Aluminium renders support to Jharsuguda district administration in COVID-19 combat
Aditya Birla Group company Aditya Aluminium has rendered its support to the Jharsuguda district administration for combating the COVID-19 crisis. According to a report, the smelter-power plant has donated 10 oxygen concentrators, 200 N95 masks, 200 PPE kits, 100 double-layered Sambalpuri cotton...
Vedanta cuts its aluminium products prices by over 3%, aluminium billet price pegs at INR202750/t
Vedanta Limited has reduced its aluminium products and aluminium ingot prices for the second time in a row, with effect from Tuesday, May 25. The company has cut its aluminium billet price by INR 7,750 per tonne or 3.68 per cent to INR 202,750 per tonne. Last week on May 20, Vedanta’s aluminium...
India’s aluminium scrap imports from US fall 19% in 1Q2021; Imports in March improve 9% M-o-M
Of 170,000 tonnes of the United States total aluminium scrap exports in March 2021, India imported 29,700 tonnes, according to the US Geological Survey’s latest data. India’s aluminium scrap imports from the US in March recorded an increase of 2,500 tonnes or 9.20 per cent month-on-month from...
Hindalco Industries’ aluminium products price plunges by INR 7,750/t on May 25
Hindalco Industries Limited has continued to decline its aluminium products price. With effect from Tuesday, 25 May 2021, aluminium billets price has dropped by INR 7,750 per tonne or 3.69% to stand at INR 202,100 per tonne, from INR 209,850 per tonne on May 20. The wire rods price stands at INR...
NALCO extends aluminium ingot price cut by INR5200/t with effect from May 22
National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) extended its aluminium ingot and aluminium products price cut last week, albeit lower than the previous day, with effect from May 22. NALCO reduced its aluminium ingot price by INR 5,200 per tonne or 2.5 per cent to INR 200,350-203,850 per tonne on...
Tata Motors to supply 300 units of four-wheeler electric vehicles to CESL
Tata Motors has inked an agreement with Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) for the supply of 300 electric cars with three years of warranty. The total cost of the agreement is expected to be around INR 44 crore. Shailesh Chandra, President, Passenger Vehicle Business Unit, Tata Motors,...
