The Hindu : Business : FFE Minerals bags Vedanta order

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Wednesday, Nov 24, 2004

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FFE Minerals bags Vedanta order

By Our Staff Correspondent

CHENNAI, NOV. 23. The Chennai-based FFE Minerals India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of F. L. Smidth Group, has secured a package of five orders from the Vedanta Group, which is putting up an alumina project in Orissa. The company will be the primary technology supplier for feed preparation, calcination and product handling at the Lanjigarh site. The five orders total a value of Rs. 358 crores and the project is scheduled to go operational during the first quarter of 2006.

The company's Managing Director and CEO, Rudy M. Edge, said these orders related to activities like the mines' crushing and their downhill conveyor to the foothills.

Mr. Rudy said another package received by FFE Minerals was for stockpiling and reclaiming of the bauxite.

But the main part of the alumina plant was the calciner, which was being constructed by FFE Minerals from its in-house technologies. The latest of the five order packages received by FFE was for the alumina handling and loading.

The Vedanta project was an integrated 1.4 million tonne per annum alumina plant in Kalahandi district of Orissa. Part of its produce was meant for Vedanta Group's own new aluminium smelter coming up at BALCO, Kobra, while the balance alumina quantity would be exported.

FFE Minerals had bid for three paper mills — Orient papers, Hindustan papers and Mysore Papers — for supplying lime sludge burning kiln.

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