Nalco wins export honour

National Aluminium Company Ltd has won the Engineering Export Promotion Council's All India Export award in the "star performer" category for 2005-06, the firm said on Friday.

 The award was presented to the company's chairman-cum- managing director C R Pradhan by Union minister for Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath in New Delhi on Friday, the company said in a release.

 Nalco had been continuously increasing its exports and foreign exchange earnings, the release said adding, it had exported 8.62 lakh tonnes of alumina and 95,747 tonnes of aluminium during 2005-06 earning a foreign exchange of Rs 2306.20 crore (Rs 23.06 billion).

 During 2006-07,

Nalco achieved record export earning of Rs. 2585.40 crore (Rs 25.85 billion).

 Nalco's products were exported to more than 30 countries and it was the first company to be registered with London Metal Exchange and had ISO-9000-2001 and ISO-14001 certifications for all its units like mines, alumina refinery, aluminium smelter and power plant.