HIGH ALUMINA RAW MATERIALS

OAL is India’s largest manufacturer of Calcined and Fused Alumina products. We manufacture a wide range of Aluminous raw materials including Brown Fused Alumina, White Fused Alumina, Pink Fused Alumina, White Fused Mullite, Fused Zirconia Mullite (ZIRMUL), Fused Alumina-Magnesia Spinnel, Calcined Bauxite and High Alumina Refractory Cement. All these products cater to the needs of grinding wheel and refractory manufacturers. Fused Alumina is also used for shot blasting and cleaning purposes. This range of products is being manufactured at the Company’s facility in Porbandar (Gujarat).

The key raw materials for these products are Bauxite and Calcined Alumina. Bauxite is sourced primarily from the Company’s own mines located in the Jamnagar and Bhuj districts of Gujarat. Calcined Alumina is sourced from aluminium manufacturing companies.

Customers:

The key Indian customers procuring these raw materials from the Company include:

• Grinding wheel manufacturers including Grindwell Norton (Saint Gobain Abrasives) and Carborundum Universal;
• Refractory manufacturers including Bharat Refractories, Tata Refractories, OCL India, Vesuvius India, Orissa Industries, ACE Refractories, VRW Refarctories, SKG Refractories, IFGL, Sarvesh Refractories and Maithan Ceramics.

REFRACTORY AND MONOLITHICS

The refractory products division forms the core of the Company’s business. This division focuses on providing a wide range of special refractories and monolithics to meet the needs of the iron and steel industry. The product range includes the following:

• Isostatically pressed Continuous Casting Refractories
• Slide gate plates
• Nozzles and Well Blocks
• Tundish Nozzles
• Bottom Purging Refractories and Top Purging Lances
• Slag Arresting Darts
• Basic Spray Mass for Tundish working lining
• Castables

All these products are custom made to suit the casting conditions and grade of steel being cast and are a result of an intensive research and development effort by the Company. To reinforce quality and development of products, the Company has an in-house Research and Development facility that is recognized by the Government of India.

The division has a well trained group of technical specialists at customer sites to service any technical and commercial needs, which enables the Company to sell on a Total Refractory Management basis to a large number of its customers.

Customers:

The refractory division’s marketing efforts are supported by a well established sales and service network across the country.

OAL customers include large domestic integrated steel producers and mini steel plants that include Steel Authority of India, Mukund Steel, Tata Iron and Steel Company, RINL – Vizag, Sunflag Iron, Lloyd Steel, Essar Steel and the Jindal Group. With close to 100 small to medium sized iron and steel producing Indian companies as customers, OAL is a preferred vendor for a large number of steel producers in the country.

The Company also supplies Castables to a large number of cement and non-ferrous companies in India.

OAL has significant presence in the global market place with exports to over 16 countries across the globe including Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Greece.