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Gold trophy for NALCO

Bhubaneswar: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has been awarded a gold trophy by the Engineering Export Promotion Council as the top exporter in the large enterprise category in the country.

NALCO has also been lauded for its contribution to the engineering export in 2005-2006. P.K. Parida, the Executive Director (Marketing) of NALCO received the award from the German Consul General in Kolkata, Guenter Wehrman, at a function held in Kolkata on Thursday.

According to the NALCO authorities, it has played a key role in the export of alumina and aluminium from India to the other parts of the world.

Nalco products are exported to more than 30 countries worldwide.

In 2005-06, the company exported 8.62 lakh tonnes of alumina and 95,747 tonnes of aluminium and had earned foreign exchange of Rs. 2,307 crore for the country.

It stood at Rs. 2,586 crore last year.

NALCO is the first Indian company to register with the London Metal Exchange, having its own mines, alumina refinery, aluminium smelter and power plant.

— PTI

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