Hindalco announced a 7 per cent revenue growth to Rs 39,383 crore for FY17
Profit rose to Rs 503 crore in the quarter ended March 31, from Rs 400 crore a year earlier
Reacting to the development, the stock of the company rose nearly 3% to Rs 195 on the BSE
Hindalco is one of the leading integrated primary producer of aluminium in Asia
Aditya Birla Group owned Hindalco Industries plans to invest Rs 500-700 crore on de-bottlenecking its Utkal alumina refinery project in Odisha's Rayagada district."Yes, we are already working on, let say the engineering designs for that de-bottlenecking. I will just leave at that because, I think in 2017-18 we would have got the complete engineering and the de-bottlenecking sorted out. So, really it is a question of whether you put in a completely new train or just de-bottlenecking and to be clear,our preference right now is to de-bottleneck and that is why we have applied for clearances to go up to about 2.25 (million tonne) as a first range", Satish Pai, managing director, Hindalco Industries said in an earnings conference call.The de-bottlenecking is expected to be done in 18 months. The Utkal refinery is fed by the company's captive Baphlimali bauxite mines with enough reserves to cater to the refinery's requirement for 25 years after its ramp-up. The mine contains .
The cut is likely to be a little less than 5% of the total workforce in these countries
Lower profitability in copper business partly offsets gains from higher aluminium volumes and prices
Company to take value-added product contribution to 80% from 35%
The stock up 5% to Rs 181 on BSE in intra-day after the company reported more than three-fold jump in standalone net profit at Rs 440 crore in Q2FY17.
Net sales of the Aditya Birla Group company stood flat at Rs 9,562 crore in the period under review
Thus far in 2016, the stock outperformed the market by surging 102%, as compared to 5% rise in Sensex.
Thus far in 2016, the stock soared 79% from Rs 85 to Rs 152, as compared to 8% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex.
In past one-month, the stock surged 43% as compared to 14% rise in Metal index and 6% gain in Sensex.
The company reported a standalone net profit of Rs 356 crore in Q4FY16, against Rs 160 crore in a year ago quarter.
Net sales slip 7.3% as realisations drop on lower metal prices and declining premiums