Aluminium Sector - Products

Aluminium products can be segregated into rolled products, extrusions, and foils.

Rolled products find applications in automobiles (paneling, floors and windows, but are yet to find use in structural parts and bodies), construction (roofing and walls), consumer durables, engineering applications, web stock for laminated packaging (for toothpastes). A major portion of rolled products capacity is accounted for by the five integrated producers (around 82%).

Extrusions include products as bars, pipes and tubes. Major users of extruded aluminium products are buildings, transportation and electrical sector. Production in this segment is widely spread and the top three players control around 31% of the market (the largest company - Hindalco commands around 14% market share in this segment).

Foils are sheets having thickness of less than 0.2 mm up to 0.006 mm finding application mainly in the packaging sector. Major users of aluminium foils include the pharmaceutical, consumer products, cigarette and cable manufacturing industries.