Extruded Aluminum Profiles Market, By Product Type (Pipes & Tubes, Rods & Bars, and Others), By Application (Building & Construction, Automotive & Transportation, Consumer Goods, Electrical & Energy, and Others), By Geography (North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa)
In 2021, Vedanta Aluminium launched High-Speed Billets for the extrusion industry
In 2022, Novelis, a leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products, introduced a net-zero laboratory and started a partnership with HES-SO Valais-Wallis for the development of carbon-neutral solutions pertaining to aluminum manufacturing. With this, the companies will be able to spend on research on decarbonizing, with the aim to become carbon neutral by 2050.
In 2020, Hindalco Industries Limited, an India-based aluminum and copper manufacturing company, opened a new manufacturing plant in Silvassa. This extrusion plant will produce a variety of extruded aluminum goods for the downstream market.
In 2021, the Utkal-E coal block, a mining area, was granted to the National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) as a mining lease. This mining lease for the Utkal-E coal block spans 523.73 hectares in the villages of Nandichhod, Gopinathpur Jungle, KundajhariJungle, Kosala, and Korada in Angul District's Chendipada Tahasil in India. The Utkal-E coal block has an initial capacity of 2 million tonnes per year and a total mineable resource of 70 million tonnes.