Hindalco Plans Spread

To expand copper, aluminium capacity

After integrating and bringing its aluminium and copper businesses under one roof, Hindalco Industries, an AV Birla group company, is now working on a mega expansion plan to emerge as a non-ferrous metals powerhouse.

The group has commenced a fresh feasibility study to evaluate the possibilities of expanding its aluminium and copper plants at their existing locations at Renukoot and Dahej, respectively, Hindalco president A K Agarwala said.

Hindalco is currently in the final leg of its Rs 1,800 crore brownfield capacity expansion programme that would take its aluminium smelting capacity to 3.42 lakh tonne per annum.

The initiative would also augment its alumina refining capacity to 6.6 lakh tonne per annum, besides enhancing the power generation capacity to 779 MW.

The Birla copper manufacturing capacity is also being enhanced to 2.5 lakh tonne per annum under the ongoing expansion programme, expected to be commissioned in the first half of 2003-04.