National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), a Navratna PSU of Govt. of India, has crossed another milestone in implementation of its ambitious Rs.4402 crore 2^nd phase expansion. The company has started commissioning various expanded capacities of its Alumina Refinery, at Damanjodi, including cogeneration power plant, evaporation plant, stacker and bauxite circuit for production of alumina. Other packages in the plant are now under advance stage of commissioning.

            It may be mentioned that under the 2^nd phase expansion NALCO is enhancing its Alumina Refinery capacity from 1.575 million tonnes to 2.1 million tonnes. Further, the company has ordered equipments to upgrade the total alumina capacity to 2.275 million tonnes under its 4^th stream upgradation programme.

            Earlier, the 4^th potline of NALCO’s Smelter Plant and the 9^th & 10^th units of its Captive Power Plant, both located at Angul, were commissioned. The work at Refinery in Damanjodi lagged after the Maoist attack there in April 2009, when several contractors & their workers left the place. Some works were then off-loaded to other contractors.

            The capacities of various project segments after second phase expansion are as follows:

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