Hindalco’s FRP Unit Marks Odisha’s Shift from Resource Supplier to Manufacturing Powerhouse
Bhubaneswar: The inauguration of India’s first Flat Rolled Products (FRP) aluminium unit at Hindalco’s Aditya Aluminium plant in Lapanga is strategically significant—not just as an industrial milestone, but as a signal of Odisha’s evolving economic model. Traditionally viewed as a mineral-rich but value-exporting state, Odisha has long supplied raw materials while downstream value addition occurred…