India’s 1st Bauxite CRM unveil by NALCO-BARC

The first of its kind CRM in India and 5th in the World, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), the Navratna CPSE, under Ministry of Mines, Government of India and country’s leading manufacturer and exporter of alumina and aluminium, has successfully developed a Bauxite Certified Reference Material (CRM) naming as BARC B1201 in joint collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

BARC B1201 was formally launched by M P Mishra, Director (P&T), NALCO and Dr A C Sahayam, Head of Division, National Centre for Compositional Characterisation of Materials in the presence of senior officials of NALCO and BARC at NALCO Research & Technology Centre, Bhubaneswar on 24th March 2023.

Expressing pride and congratulating the entire team involved in development of this product, NALCO CMD , Sridhar Patra said “The collaboration with BARC has resulted in developing this unique product required by our research laboratories.

Worth mentioning that this new product will act as an import substitution for use by Industries, Research Laboratories and Academic Institutions as a calibration standard  in evaluating analytical methods, performance of Instruments, and data quality control in routine analysis of bauxite.