Hindustan Zinc expands zinc processing operations

Archiv – London based Vedanta Resources says that its Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) subsidiary from India has completed commissioning of its 170,000 tonnes per annum Hydro Phase-II zinc smelter at Chanderiya Rajasthan in only 20 months, setting a new world record. India | London based Vedanta Resources says that its Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) subsidiary from India has completed commissioning of its 170 000 tonnes per annum (tpa) Hydro Phase-II zinc smelter at Chanderiya Rajasthan in only 20 months, setting a new world record.
The roll-out of this new smelter will increase the total metal production capacity of HZL to 670 000 tonnes as well as bring the company closer to its mission to produce one million tonnes of finished metal on annual basis by 2010.
HZL has rapidly increased its total finished metal capacity from 176,000 tonnes in a year in 2002 at the time of its disinvestment by the Government of India to nearly 670,000 tpa in December 2007, a nearly fourfold increase. To support the increased production capacity, HZL’s Rampura Agucha mine is also being expanded to increase the ore production capacity from 3.75 mtpa to 5.0 mtpa, taking HZL’€™s total ore production capacity to 7.10 mtpa.
HZL is currently engaged in a de-bottlenecking exercise expected to be completed by mid-2008, which will further increase finished zinc metal production capacity by an additional 88 000 tpa, taking its total metal production capacity to 758 000 tpa.