State-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) could see a production loss of about 1,000 tonnes due to coal supply shortage after a machinery failure at its supplier mine, a senior company official said.

Nalco, India’s third-largest aluminium maker, produced 361,262 tonnes
of aluminium in 2008/09, solely out of the aluminium smelter at Angul
in Orissa state in eastern India. “The production loss should not be
more than 3 to 5 percent of our monthly target,” K. S. Sreedhara,
executive director of smelter and power, told.

“We still have three months to recover. We will try and compensate.” A
fire on Tuesday damaged machinery and two conveyor belts causing
disruption at Mahanadi Coal Field Ltd’s Bharat Mines in Orissa, which
supplies coal to Nalco.

The state-run firm uses the coal to run its captive power plant that
supplies power to its smelter. The Angul smelter normally gets coal
supplies of 15,000 to 16,000 tonnes daily from the mines, but on
Tuesday received only about 8,000 tonnes.

Sreedhara said the coal stock at the Angul plant was thin and would
last only for two more days, but efforts were on to overcome the crisis
through other local supplies and using alternative means to transport
coal from the mines. “The restoration work may take some …6 to 7
days,” Sreedhara said. Nalco shares closed down 0.2 percent at 389.65
rupees on Wednesday, in a Mumbai market that slipped 0.33 percent.

Source: Economic Times India

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