Vedanta Aluminium Business,
India’s largest producer of aluminium and value-added products, launched
High-Speed Billets for the global extrusion industry at a virtual event with participants
from the downstream and extrusion industry. The company’s global experts on billet
extrusion also shared a slew of initiatives as part of its Customer Technical
Service cell for unparalleled customer experience.
Vedanta is India’s largest
manufacturer and exporter of high-quality aluminium billets, which find end-usage
in Building & Construction, Solar/Renewable Energy, Automotive, Electrical
and many other key industries through the extrusion process. Extrusion is
a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-section profile by
pushing material through a die. It also creates excellent surface finish
and gives considerable freedom of form in the design process.
The High-Speed Billets are a
part of Vedanta Aluminium’s portfolio of billet offerings, manufactured with
the highest engineering precision. Best-in-class global technologies like
Wagstaff Hot-Top Air Slip Casting System (USA) and Hertwich Continuous
Homogenising Furnace (Austria) have been used to manufacture these billets. Vedanta’s
High-Speed Billets can improve extrusion speed by at least 25%, or more,
depending on the extrusion environment. With superior metallurgical properties
brought about with stringent process control and optimised chemistry, these
billets demonstrate exceptional extrusion speed without compromising on the
strength of the extruded profile. These products show significant improvement
in process recovery as well as die life.
Launching the product, Mr. Rahul
Sharma, CEO – Aluminium Business, Vedanta Ltd., said, “We are committed to manufacturing
the best aluminium products, as well as offering our customers a powerful
competitive edge in their business aspirations. Our holistic solutions are
market-responsive and tailored to support customers at various stages of their
evolving business journey. With our deep R&D capabilities and global
expertise, we are keen to co-create leading-edge innovations with our customers.
High-Speed Billets are our latest offering in a long line of expertly
customized product solutions for various industry segments.”
Vedanta’s Customer Technical
Services cell anchors customers’ quality and technical requirements from
existing and new products. Mr. Jonathan Pangborn, global billet-extrusion
expert working with Vedanta’s Customer Technical Services cell added, “Vedanta Aluminium has a robust and quality-focused
manufacturing. The Customer Technical Service team is geared up to adapt our
customized product portfolio to the evolving needs of the extrusion industry. I
look forward to collaborating with customers and providing the best technical
solutions to them, as part of Vedanta’s value-added service offering.”
As aluminium is a dynamic and
rapidly evolving industry with potential for greater applications in a sustainability-conscious
world, Vedanta is also focusing its efforts on R&D, bringing together
Technical, Operations and Marketing expertise in a Centre of Excellence to
invent the next big thing in aluminium. Vedanta is constantly augmenting its
value-added product portfolio by introducing customer-centric products and next-generation
technologies.
Vedanta Aluminium
Business, a division of Vedanta Limited, is India’s largest manufacturer of
aluminium, producing half of India’s aluminium at 1.97 million tonnes per annum
(MTPA) in FY21. It is a leader in value-added aluminium products that find
critical applications in core industries. With its world-class Aluminium
Smelters, Alumina Refinery and Power Plants in India, the company fulfils its
mission of spurring emerging applications of aluminium as the ‘Metal of the
Future’ for a greener tomorrow.