Hindalco Industries

About Hindalco Industries

Hindalco is India's largest aluminum producer and operates the country's largest copper smelting and refining plant. It also owns the Mount Gordon and Nifty copper mines in Australia. The company's aluminum products include wire rods, ingots, billets, aluminum alloy wheels, aluminum packaging and foils. Its copper products include cast copper rods for power and communication cables, strips for power and distribution transformers, magnet wire, and copper cathodes. The copper unit provides almost two-thirds of its sales. Hindalco is a unit of Aditya Birla. In 2007, the company paid $6 billion, including debt, to buy Canada's Novelis.