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Company Headquarters: Moscow, Russia Founded: 2007 Workforce: ~64,000 Company Working: RUSAL is a globally leading aluminum producer. Its main products are primary aluminum, aluminum alloys, foil, and alumina. The company has a vertically integrated business model with assets right through the production process—from bauxite and nepheline ore mines to aluminum smelters and foil mills. It has access to rich bauxite deposits to meet growing production demands for the next 100 years. The bauxite mines of the company helped produce high-quality alumina using the Bayer extraction method and sintering technology. It has 44 plants in 19 countries across five continents.

Company Headquarters: Canada Founded: 1902 Workforce: ~64,000 Company Working: Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. (Rio Tinto), formerly known as Alcan Inc., is involved in the mining and production of aluminum, bauxite, and alumina. The company has a presence in over 35 countries across the globe and operates through five segments—iron ore, aluminum, copper and diamonds, energy and minerals, and other operations. The company’s pioneering technological innovations include the Mine of the Future program and low CO2 aluminum producing from hydropower.

Company Headquarters: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US Founded: 1886 Workforce: ~4,500 Company Working: Alcoa Corporation (Alcoa) is a leading company in the metal industry that is engaged in the production of bauxite, alumina, and aluminum products. It operates through three business segments, namely, aluminum, alumina, and bauxite. The company operates seven active bauxite mines across Brazil, Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. In 2018, Alcoa generated a revenue of USD 1.2 billion from the bauxite segment. In the same year, the company shipped a total volume of 46.9 million dry metric tons of bauxite. Of the total shipment, 5.7 million dry metric tons were shipped to third parties.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1992 Workforce: ~250 Company Working: Gujarat Foils Limited (Gujarat Foils) engages in the manufacturing and supply of aluminum foil bare, aluminum sheet, aluminum foil-coated (plain and printed), aluminum foil-laminated (plain and printed), house foil, and containers. The company caters mostly to the food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, and packaging industries.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1938 Workforce: ~1,000 Company Working: Kennamental India Limited (Kennamental India) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kennametal Inc. The company engages in the production and supplying of hard metal products and machine tools for a range of industries such as aerospace, defense, general engineering, mining, construction, and transportation. The company operates through two segments—hard metal products and machine tools.

Company Headquarters: India Workforce: ~7,000 Founded: 1981 Company Working: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) is a Navratna central public sector enterprise (CPSE) under the Indian Ministry of Mines. The company has the largest integrated baxuite-alumina-aluminum complex in the country. NALCO is the lowest cost producer of metallurgical alumina in the country and accounted for over 43% of aluminum exports in 2017–18. The company has an alumina refinery with an annual capacity of 22.75 lakh tonnes per annum, a smelter with a capacity of 4.60 lakh tonnes per annum, and an aluminum rolled products unit with a capacity of 50,000 MT per annum.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 1965 Workforce: ~60,000 Company Working: Vedanta Limited (Vedanta) is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Plc. It is a natural resource company that engages in the exploration, extraction, and processing of oil, gas, and minerals. The company operates through the oil & gas, zinc and lead-India, silver-India, zinc-international, iron ore, copper, aluminum, and power segments. The company is one of the largest aluminum producers in India with a capacity of 2.3 metric tons per annum and a 40% share of the Indian aluminum market. Vedanta’s facility in Lanjigarh, Odisha (India), is considered one of the world’s largest single-location integrated alumina refinery complexes and is the first zero-discharge refinery in India.

Company Headquarters: Rueil-Malmaison, France Founded: 1836 Workforce: ~1,42,000 Company Working: Schneider Electric is a leading multinational corporation, which offers solutions for the digital transformation of energy management and automation industries. It offers its products and services for applications in homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industrial operations. Furthermore, the company also offers solutions for integrated efficiency, combining energy, automation, and software applications. Schneider Electric operates through four business segments, which are low voltage (building), medium voltage (infrastructure), industrial automation (industry), and secure power (IT). The low voltage business segment offers electrical distribution products and solutions including circuit breakers, power monitoring and control, power meters, electrical enclosures, busways, cable management systems, renewable energy conversion and connection equipment and electric vehicle charging infrastructures. The major subsidiaries of the company are American Power Conversion Corporation, Clipsal, Pelco, ASCO Power Technologies, Feller AG, Luminous Power Technologies, Digital Electronics Corporation, Summit Energy Services, Inc., APC Holdings Inc., and Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc. It primarily competes with companies, such as ABB, Siemens, Eaton, and Aerovironment. Schneider Electric offers its products and services in more than 100 countries including Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Russia, the UK, and the US. It has 208 plants and 98 distribution centers, across the globe.

Company Overview Company Headquarters: Mumbai, India Founded: 1958 Workforce: ~35,000 Company Working: Hindalco Industries Limited (Hindalco) is a subsidiary of the Aditya Birla Group and is the world’s largest aluminum rolling company and one of Asia’s largest producers of aluminum. The company has a presence in more than 12 countries across the globe with 51 manufacturing units. Its Indian aluminum operations are integrated and consist of alumina refining and bauxite mining, among others. The company caters to a wide range of industries such as construction, electrical, transportation, packaging, and defence. It also exports aluminum extrusions to the US, Canada, Germany, the UK, France, the UAE, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Hindalco’s acquisition of Novelis Inc in 2007. helped extend its global footprint and secure a position among the top five aluminum majors. Some of its major subsidiaries include Utkal Alumina International, AV Minerals (Netherlands) BV, and Birla Resources Pty Ltd.