Goa Carbon Temporarily Shuts Operations at its Bilaspur Plant

Goa Carbon Limited is an India-based company, which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of calcined petroleum coke. The Company is a supplier to aluminum smelters, graphite electrode, refractory and titanium dioxide manufacturers, as well as other users in the metallurgical and chemical industries. The Company's calcination plant of approximately 308,000 million tons per annum capacity is located in southern Goa, over 40 kilometers away from the Mormugao port. The Company also has approximately two other plants, at Bilaspur in Chattisgarh, which has a capacity of over 40,000 million tons per annum of calcined petroleum coke, and at Paradeep in Orissa, which is over eight kilometers away from the Paradip port and has a capacity of approximately 1,68,000 million tons per annum of calcined petroleum coke. Its calcined petroleum coke is offered in jute bags, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bags, paper bags, jumbo (bulk) bags and in loose bulk cargo on trucks / ships.