National Aluminium Company (NALCO), a Navratna PSU of Ministry of Mines, total alumina sale during first quarter ended June 2013 stood at 2.83 lakh tonnes (LT) as against 2.53 LT in the first quarter of the previous fiscal. As regards metal sales, the company sold 0.85 LT in Q1 as against 1.02 LT in the corresponding period of previous year.
On production front, while bauxite production during this quarter increased to 14.63 LT against 11.42 LT in the corresponding quarter of last year, alumina production has gone up to 4.82 LT against 4.76 LT during the comparable quarter of previous fiscal.
Further during the quarter, power generation was at 1,327 million units, against 1,614 million units and aluminium production was 0.85 LT as against 1.03 LT achieved in the first quarter of the previous fiscal.
