With coal supply well on the path of recovery, National Aluminum Company Limited announced that it was all set to achieve full production levels by the end of October.

Mr BL Bagra CMD of Nalco said that the aluminum major has started rebuilding on production stock as supplies have resumed from Bharatpur mines of the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited. We expect to restart all 60 pots that were closed on account of the coal supply crisis in October.

The PSU had earlier this month placed an import order for 200,000 tonne of coal as supply dipped to 7,400 tonne per day against a requirement of 12,000 tonne causing a loss of at least 1 crore per day. It was also forced to source about 300 MW of power from the State Grid to operate the smelter. With resumption of coal supply, the power drawl from State Grid has come down to 50 MW at present and will come down to nil soon.”

(Sourced from ibnlive.in.com)