ET NowAluminium prices will be supported by increasing in input prices, the prices of caustic soda will be a critical input for making it up, said TK Chand. In a chat with ET Now, TK Chand, CMD, Nalco, talked about the company’s sales and impact of China on aluminium prices. Edited excerpts: Let us start with the sales, they have been muted can you give us a breakup of the volumes and realisations? As far this quarter is concerned this second quarter our top order has been increased by 10% from Rs 1645 crore to Rs 1813 crore. That is one thing and then as far as the realisations is concerned, there is a slight improvement in the realisation around 3% to 4% but on expenses side, input cost have increased, particularly the cost of caustic soda, then coal and say some clean environment, that also is the another factor which has led to increase in the expenses. Do you see subsequent quarters also giving you a bad performance or is there hope for the second? Our second half, we are ...

MUMBAI: Aditya Birla Group firm Grasim today reported a 40 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 724 crore for the March quarter as compared to Rs 516 crore in the same period last year. “The revenue increased by 13 per cent at Rs 10,001 crore in the March quarter as against Rs 8,817 crore in the same period last year due to robust volume growth in VSF, chemicals and cement businesses,” a company statement said here. For the full year, consolidated revenue was higher by 12 per cent to Rs 36,637 crore and net profit increased to Rs 2,387 crore as compared to Rs 1,753 crore last year. The Board of Directors has recommended a higher pidend of Rs 22.5 per share as against Rs 18 per share in the previous year. The total outflow on account of the pidend will be Rs 221 crore, inclusive of the corporate tax on pidend. The viscose staple fibre (VSF) pision’s revenue increased by 23 per cent at Rs 1,729 crore. Sales volume grew by 10 per cent at 130,000 TPA helped by addit...