Vedanta surges on planning to expand alumina refinery in Odisha

24 Aug 2018 Evaluate

Vedanta is currently trading at Rs. 217.15, up by 2.35 points or 1.09% from its previous closing of Rs. 214.80 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 214.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 218.00 and Rs. 212.35 respectively. So far 274468 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 355.70 on 29-Jan-2018 and a 52 week low of Rs. 200.75 on 20-Jul-2018.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 223.85 and Rs. 212.30 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 80756.04 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 50.14%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 32.15% and 13.39% respectively.

Vedanta is planning to expand its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha to 6 million tonnes per annum by 2021. The company will use alternate bauxite resources as it looks beyond the failed Niyamgiri experiment. The Lanjigarh plant produced around 1.2 million tonnes of alumina last fiscal and has a current capacity of 2 million tonnes.

The company has sufficient alternative resources of bauxite available to feed the expansion and has moved beyond the previously pursued high-quality bauxite beneath the pristine Niyamgiri hills.

Vedanta is a diversified natural resources company, whose business primarily involves producing oil and gas, zinc- lead-silver, copper, iron ore, aluminium and commercial power.

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