Belgaum alumina refinery

The refinery was built initially to serve only the adjacent Belgaum smelter, which was permanently closed in 1999. Belgaum also supplied Indal's Alupuram smelter, which was ‘temporarily' closed in 2003, but has not been restarted. We do not include the expansion to 650kt/a in our base case. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporating a number of granular data metrics to ultimately produce our industry standard cash operating costs. This report contains a detailed asset note giving you a holistic view of the asset, including an operational overview through to a timeline of events from inception to now. This qualitative analysis is supplemented by the associated Excel download which enables interrogation of a whole series of cost and production metrics over the life of the asset.