Input commodity inflation to keep Vedanta's aluminium making cost high

Pain from rising input costs is more for Vedanta than for Hindalco and Nalco, as it doesn't have captive bauxite resources; volume ramp-up hasn't helped either

An uptrend in the prices of key ingredients is set to exert pressure on Vedanta’s cost of manufacturing aluminium. 

Though a tad lower than its Q3 cost of $1,945 per tonne, Vedanta’s aluminium manufacturing cost is expected to be in the band of $1,850-1,900 a tonne in the January-March quarter or Q4 of this fiscal. 

“We have revisited our Q4 cost of production to be in the range of $1,850-1,900, as input