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| Company type | Public |
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| NSE: NATIONALUM BSE: 532234 | |
| Industry | Mining Power |
| Headquarters | , India |
Key people | Brijendra Pratap Singh (Chairman &MD) |
| Products | Bauxite Aluminium Alumina Hydrate |
| Revenue |  ₹14,170 crore (US$1.7 billion) (FY22)[1] |
| ₹3,677.12 crore (US$430 million) (FY22)[1] | |
| ₹2,955.95 crore (US$350 million) (FY22)[1] | |
| Total assets |  ₹14,549.62 crore (US$1.7 billion) (2020)[1] |
| Total equity | ₹9,988.07 crore (US$1.2 billion) (2020)[1] |
| Owner | Government of India (51.50%)[2] |
Number of employees | 6,496 (April 2019)[3] |
| Website | nalcoindia |
National Aluminium Company Limited (abbreviated asNALCO; incorporated in 1981) is an Indianpublic sector company having integrated and diversified operations in mining, metal and power. Presently, theGovernment of India holds a 51.28% equity stake in NALCO,[2] while theMinistry of Mines has administrative control over the company.
It is one of the largest integrated bauxite–alumina–aluminium–power complex in the country, encompassingbauxite mining,alumina refining, aluminiumsmelting andcasting, power generation, rail and port operations.
The company pursues its R&D activities fervently and has already filed 36 patents out of which 17 patents have been granted and 5 have been commercialized until Dec 2018.
The company is the lowest-cost producer of metallurgical grade alumina in the world and lowest-cost producer of bauxite in the world as per a Wood McKenzie report. With sustained quality products, the company's export earnings accounted for about 42% of the sales turnover in the year 2018–19 and the company is rated as third-highest net export earning CPSE as per a Public Enterprise Survey report.
The company is harnessing renewable energy aligning to the ambitious programmes of the Indian government. The company has already commissioned 198 MWwind power plants and further 50 MW wind power plants are in pipeline, making it the highest producer of renewable energy among PSUs.
NALCO is headquartered at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
NALCO operates from two major Units
Main products of NALCO are as follows:
Aluminium Metal
Alumina & Hydrate
Rolled Product
Power
As of June 2019,[update] there were 6496 employees on the company's roll.
NALCO has set up a research center, the NALCO Research & Technology Center (NRTC), at Gothapatana,Bhubaneswar. This research center is equipped with QEMSCAN (SEM-EDX), XRD, XRF, ICP-MS, Sedigraph, Laser Particle size analyser, UTM, DSC, TGA, ICP-OES, BET Analyzer, Potentiometer, OES, CHNS Analyzer, Metallurgical Microscope, Whiteness Index meter etc. The testing activities at NRTC have been conducted on a regular basis starting in 2019. The R&D wing of the NALCO Research and Technology Center has been recognized byDSIR, Government of India, on 29 May 2020. Testing of outside samples on chargeable basis has been started, and detailed information is available on the NALCO website.
Since NALCO is apublic authority, it comes under theRight to Information Act. Thus, NALCO is required to provide information to various RTI queries asked by general public.[4][5]
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