National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has signed a Technology Licensing Agreement with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) to deploy EGA’s UAE-developed DX+ Ultra aluminium smelting technology at its proposed 500,000 tonnes per annum (MTPA) brownfield smelter expansion at Angul, Odisha.
The agreement was signed in Dubai on September 7, 2026, in the presence of NALCO Chairman-cum-Managing Director Brijendra Pratap Singh and EGA Chief Executive Officer Abdulnasser Bin Kalban. Biju K, Chief General Manager (Projects), signed the agreement for NALCO, while Abdalla Zarouni, Acting Executive Vice President – Midstream, signed on behalf of EGA. NALCO Director (Projects & Technical) Jagdish Arora and Director (Finance) Abhay Kumar Behuria also attended the signing ceremony.
Under the agreement, EGA will provide NALCO with the DX+ Ultra technology licence, know-how, designs and technical information, along with technical support during different stages of project implementation.
DX+ Ultra is a high-amperage aluminium smelting technology designed to support higher productivity and improved energy performance. NALCO expects its deployment to help develop an efficient and competitive smelter while optimising capital and operating costs.
The brownfield expansion will add approximately 0.5 MTPA of aluminium production capacity at NALCO’s Angul facility. Combined with its existing capacity, the expansion is expected to take NALCO’s overall aluminium production capacity towards about 1 MTPA.