BHUBANESWAR:
The Vedanta Aluminium Ltd would open its refinery at Lanjigarh on Monday which
was closed temporarily a few days back on October 12 due to shortage of bauxite.
The company has arranged raw materials to run the plant for few days, but the
plant would be closed on December 5, the company official sources said.
After ten days, the company would
again open its refinery plant at Lanjigarh and it has started producing alumina
as they have received 30,000 matric tonne of bauxite from Nalco’s Chhattishgarh
mines. Meanwhile, the company would bring 90,000 tonne bauxite in two phases
from the Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation to run the plant. In the first
phase, the company would bring 45,000 matric tonne bauxite and that would be
reached at the plant on October 26.
According to the Vedanta company
authorities, any how the company would run the plant till December 5, but after
that the company would close its plant. “The imported stock will be finished within
15 days, after that the company would shut down its plant. We are trying our
best to run the refinery outsourcing bauxite from other mines, but how many
days it will continue without a stable source of raw material to run the
plant,” said Chief Operating Officer of the company Mukesh Kumar.
To continue alumina production,
the refinery needs 10,000 tonnes of bauxite per day. The company had served a
notice to the State’s Labour Department about the problem on September 6 and
informed that it would shut down the plant temporarily from December 5.
The company officials had met the
Chief Minister and demanded alternative mines to run their refinery. On the
other hand, Minister of Mines RK Singh said the State Government was reviewing
the demands of the company.
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