BHUBANESWAR:
The Vedanta Aluminium Ltd closed its refinery at Lanjigarh temporarily on
Saturday as it does not have any stock of bauxite to run the plant. They closed
the refinery as they didn’t get any alternative to continue the plant, said
Chief Operating Officer of the company Mukesh Kumar said.
The COO also said the refinery
will be closed till they get bauxite. The top officials has informed about the
closing of the Rs 4,500 crore company three days back as the production rate of
the Aluminum company has gone down to 30 per cent to 35 per cent within last
ten days, sources said.
The company on Wednesday, in a
letter to the authorities of the Wesco, requested supply of 8-10 MW of
electricity to the refinery as its captive power plant would be closed
temporarily for a few days on the sidelines of the closing of the refinery due
to shortage of bauxite.
To continue alumina production,
the refinery needs 10,000 tonnes of bauxite. The company 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
Chief Minister and demanded alternate mines to run their refinery. On the other
hand, Minister of Mines said the State Government is discussing on the demands
of the company.
The company would bring 90,000
tonne bauxite from the Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation to run the
plant, but that would probably reach here in the plant in October last week; so
they would close the plant for some days till the bauxite is received, company
sources said.
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