Vedanta Aluminium playing a vital role in India’s progress

Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Aluminium is the largest producer of aluminium in India. The green metal is a sovereign decisive influential commodity and stands second in the list of preferential metals in the world.

The characteristics and utility of aluminium prioritize it as a metal of choice and it is adapted for profound usage in key sectors like defence, aerospace, automobile and infrastructure. It plays a key role in the government's visionary initiatives- Make in India, Smart Cities, Power for All, indigenous space programs etc. The aluminium sector delivers opportunities for over 800,000 (approx.) people directly and indirectly and with such advantages, it justifies being considered as a major industry, corresponding to the steel sector.

Vedanta's endeavour to enlarge its production of aluminium is driving India towards Self-reliance. In the previous fiscal year, Vedanta’s aluminium production outreached at 1.95 million tonnes and it landed the company to be the highest aluminium producer in the country. Now, with this success, Vedanta moves an advance stage towards supporting the government in its attempt to build a self-reliant domestic industry.

Notwithstanding, the major reason for this achievement is the way the business has up-hold its capacity at its smelters at Jharsuguda in Odisha, BALCO in Korba, Chhattisgarh and its alumina refinery in Kalahandi, Odisha.

Vedanta aluminium, famed for its top product quality and application of state-of-the-art technology in its production process, is the leading player in the aluminium industry. The production achievement has driven the company to the peak and surfaced the way for the company to enhance a new business strategy to create volume and raise the bar. Vedanta is investing in the development of supreme-quality Value-Added Products that empowers the company to create a wide range of offerings – from wire rods, billets, primary foundry alloy to rolled products and ingots. The lately rolled out primary foundry alloy, which is being produced in India for the first time and was heretofore only imported, leaps Vedanta a step closer to the end-user in the value chain and adds value for its stakeholders.

The new business budge will support Vedanta to achieve operational flexibility that will accredit it to attune itself pertinently to unfold customer requirements and changing market demands.