BHUBANESWAR: Following the closure of the Vedanta Aluminium Limited’s Lanjigarh refinery due to shortage of bauxite, the company officials informed that the company’s smelter plant at Jharsuguda will be closed after one month.
The Lanjigarh refinery was
producing alumina after refining the bauxite and the alumina was used as raw
material for the smelter plant at Jharsuguda to make aluminum. The refinery was
the prime source of the smelter plant. After closing of the refinery on
Saturday, it became a threat for the smelter plant as it was getting 70 per
cent raw materials from the refinery. “The closing of the refinery at Lanjigarh
would affect the smelter plant badly and it will function only one month,” said
a top official of the company Abhijeet Pati.
The company sources said that the
production capacity of the two smelter plants at Jharsuguda is 1.75 million
tonne per year. The company has invested Rs 3,500 crore in the plants and
around 15,000 people are depending on the plants directly or indirectly, stated
the company.
It may be noted that the company
closed its refinery at Lanjigarh temporarily on Saturday without any stock of
bauxite to run the plant.
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