Hindalco gets green nod for Orissa alumina refinery

12 May 2011 Evaluate

Hindalco Industries has received the final forest clearance for its proposed 1.5-million-tonne, Rs 6,000-crore alumina refinery project in Orissa’s Rayagada district. The Aditya Birla Group flagship company is now expediting the project, especially to achieve financial closure soon. The Aditya alumina project is slated to go on stream in 2014. The first stage of the project has an aluminium smelter plant in Orissa.

The firm has got the stage-2 clearance for the project last week and is now working on the financial closure. The company was also looking at “other” kinds of funding for the project and can go for another QIP next year. The target for debt-to-equity ratio for the project was 1:1. In 2010-11, Hindalco spent Rs 6,500 crore on new project expansion, majorly on Utkal (also in Rayagada district of Orissa), Mahan (Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh) and a bit on the existing Aditya project as well.

The Aditya project has an aluminium smelter plant of a capacity of 359 kilo tonnes per annum (ktpa), with a 900-Mw power project for its captive use. The project is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2012 and has received the necessary approvals. The total cost is Rs 9,200 crore, except the financing charges. The second leg of the project, for which it has got the forest clearance, will have an alumina refinery with a capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year. This is slated to be commissioned by the end of 2014.

Hindalco, on March 31, achieved financial closure for its Rs 10,500-crore Mahan aluminium smelter project. The project will have a total smelting capacity of 359 ktpa, with a 900 Mw power capacity. The debt-to-equity ratio for this project is 75:25, with a rupee loan agreement worth Rs 7,875 crore signed with banks.crackcrack

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