Vedanta to focus on Jharsuguda smelter plant expansion
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With the 5 million tonne Greenfield Lanjigarh aluminum refinery plant expansion on hold, the Anil Agarwal led Vedanta Aluminum has decided to focus on completing its aluminum smelter plant at Jharsuguda in Orissa to achieve its targeted capacity of 1.75 million tonnes.
Mr Mukesh Kumar president & CEO of VAL said that "The work is on, on a war footing, at the proposed project site at our Jharsuguda plant and we will achieve 1.75 million tonnes capacity by the end of the next financial year."
VAL plans to up its smelting capacity at Jharsuguda plant to 1.75 million tonne from the present 0.5 million tonne by 2013.
He said that the company has set up a Greenfield aluminum refinery plant with a capacity of 1 million tonne at Lanjigarh and plans to ramp up it to 5 million tonne. We are awaiting the environment ministry's clearance to ramp up capacity at Lanjigarh plant in Kalahandi district.
