It added that the fundraising would aggregate up to Rs 4,000 crore, including the option to retain oversubscription of up to Rs 1,000 crore.
The approval on the same was given during the meeting of the committee of directors held on Tuesday, HZL said in a filing to the BSE
The company proposes to offer rated, unsecured, redeemable, non-cumulative, non-convertible debentures aggregating up to Rs 4,000 crores in one or more tranches, HZL said
The fund will also target companies restructuring under India's bankruptcy regime, the people said
"As India is on its way to large-scale infrastructure expansions, use of galvanised steel in construction is set to rise," Hindustan Zinc CEO Arun Mishra said
We were able to ramp up and May-June turned out to be very good months compared to last year, or the year before that, says Misra
Anjani K Agarwal was a senior partner at EY till 2019; Akhilesh Joshi was former CEO at Hindustan Zinc
Analysts at HSBC, not expecting zinc prices to cross $2,200 in the foreseeable future, have reiterated "hold" rating given potential for volume growth and high dividend yield
With volume growth expected to be soft in FY21, higher base metal prices are crucial for upgrades
He succeeds Sunil Duggal, who is now leading the group company, Vedanta Limited, as its chief executive officer.
In the past decade, total market cap of top 17 PSUs has dropped 41% vis-a-vis a 91% rise in Sensex
After hitting multi-year lows, metal prices have seen some gains. Though lower input costs are supportive, demand is the crucial missing piece
On the operating front, while lower zinc and lead realisations impacted profit, cost of production in the zinc business, too, jumped 7 per cent year-on-year
Offer price of Rs 87.5 akin to "questioning wisdom of investor", says governance firm.
Mine digitization to lower cost of production by 10%; Co looking to cut cost of production to $900 per tonne from $1,077 per tonne now
In Q3, the average zinc prices on the London Metal Exchange at $2,388 a tonne was down 9 per cent year-on-year (YoY); sequentially, it was up marginally by 2 per cent
As per World Silver Survey 2019 by The Silver Institute, Hindustan Zinc is now the ninth-largest producer of the metal in the world, placing India among the top 10 silver producing countries.
Integrated metal production was 2,10,000 tonnes for the quarter, almost flat from a year ago
At present, the company is in the final leg of plan to raise capacity to 1.2 million tonnes, from 0.8 million tonnes
HZL is currently using line-of-sight drones while it waits to try fully autonomous drones by next year