NALCO Aluminium Price History in India: Daily Archive & Trend Analysis

About This NALCO Aluminium Price Archive

This page is the most comprehensive public archive of NALCO aluminium price history for India. Every time National Aluminium Company Limited (a Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Mines, Government of India) publishes a revised domestic ingot price on its official portal, our system captures it, timestamps it, and appends it to the archive shown in the table below.

The dataset focuses on the IE07 grade aluminium ingot, which is the benchmark NALCO publishes for domestic buyers and which the wider Indian aluminium market — secondary smelters, traders, formwork manufacturers, cable producers, and extrusion houses — uses as a daily reference. Each archive entry shows the official rate in ₹/tonne (as NALCO publishes it), the equivalent ₹/kg conversion, and the change versus the previous publication.

The archive is free, no login is required, and the data is intended for procurement teams, market analysts, contractors, researchers, and students who need a citation-friendly source for Indian aluminium pricing.

How NALCO Aluminium Prices Move

NALCO does not set its domestic price arbitrarily. It revises the IE07 rate based on a small set of well-known drivers, which is why the aluminium price trend in India closely tracks global benchmarks with a short lag.

• LME aluminium spot & 3-month price — the London Metal Exchange is the global price discovery venue. NALCO's domestic revisions usually follow material LME moves within 1–3 working days.
• INR/USD exchange rate — LME aluminium is quoted in USD per tonne; a weaker rupee lifts the rupee-denominated price even if the dollar price is flat. RBI reference rates feed this conversion.
• Domestic demand cycles — construction season, auto production, power cable orders, and FMCG packaging demand all influence revision frequency.
• Power and alumina input costs — aluminium smelting is power-intensive. Coal, captive power tariffs, and alumina availability shape NALCO's cost floor.
• Inventory and import parity — when imported aluminium becomes cheaper than NALCO IE07, domestic price pressure builds.
• Policy events — Union Budget duty changes, export rebates, and Ministry of Mines notifications can cause step changes.

Historical Trend Overview (2020–2026)

The table below is a high-level summary of how the NALCO aluminium price history has behaved across major macro phases. Exact daily values are in the full archive table further down this page.

Ranges are indicative bands derived from the archive. For exact ₹/kg figures on any given trading day, refer to the daily price history table rendered below.

How to Read the Daily Price Table Below

The full daily price history table is rendered below this article, served directly from our database so it is always current. Each row represents one official NALCO IE07 price publication and contains the following fields:

• Date — the calendar date NALCO published the revision (IST, Indian Standard Time).
• Price (₹/tonne) — the official notified rate exactly as it appears on nalcoindia.com without any rounding or adjustment.
• Price (₹/kg) — automatic conversion (₹/tonne ÷ 1000) for convenience, since most Indian buyers transact in ₹/kg.
• Change — day-on-day delta versus the previous publication, in both ₹ and %, useful for spotting trend reversals.
• Source — reference to the NALCO daily price page captured on that date, so every row is fully verifiable.

You can sort by date, search by month/year, and (where available) export the visible range to CSV. Mobile users can scroll the table horizontally without losing the date column. The table is paginated for performance: older entries load on demand as you scroll deeper into the archive. Because the data is server-rendered, search engines and AI crawlers can index every historical row directly — making this archive citation-friendly for research papers, news articles, and procurement documentation.

Monthly Average Methodology

For users who need a single representative number per month — common for budgeting, escalation clauses, and price variation (PV) formulas — we compute a simple arithmetic monthly average across all NALCO publications within that calendar month.

• Only official NALCO IE07 publications are included; intra-month LME moves without a NALCO revision are not interpolated.
• Months with no revision inherit the last published value as the carry-forward rate.
• Monthly averages are computed in ₹/tonne, then divided by 1000 for the ₹/kg view.
• GST is not included in any archived figure — NALCO publishes ex-works, pre-tax.

This methodology is consistent with how most Indian aluminium traders and PSU procurement teams reconcile monthly cost sheets, making the archive directly usable in tender evaluations, BOQ revisions, and contractual price variation calculations across the construction sector.

Using Historical Data for Project Budgeting

For Indian construction contractors, formwork manufacturers, and EPC firms, the aluminium ingot price history is not academic — it directly drives project margin. A few practical ways procurement teams use this archive:

• BOQ rate justification — cite the NALCO publication on the tender submission date as the verifiable input cost basis for aluminium-bearing line items.
• Price variation (PV) clauses — use the base-month and current-month NALCO averages to compute the escalation factor; most CPWD, NHAI, and PSU tender PV formulas accept NALCO as the recognised index.
• Hedging triggers — set internal thresholds (e.g., +10% over trailing 90-day average) that automatically trigger forward buying or MCX aluminium contracts.
• Vendor negotiation — secondary suppliers often quote a premium over NALCO; the historical archive makes that premium transparent and defensible.
• Audit & compliance — internal auditors and statutory auditors accept NALCO published prices as third-party evidence of fair market value for inventory valuation and related-party transactions.
• Long-range planning — five-year project plans can stress-test budgets against the 2020–2026 range visible in the archive to size contingency reserves.

Fommec Global Private Limited, India's leading aluminium formwork manufacturer and the parent of this tracker, uses exactly this dataset to manage raw material exposure across its own large-scale infrastructure and real-estate projects — which is why we maintain the archive publicly and free of charge for the wider Indian construction community.

Get Daily Updates

To never miss a NALCO price change, subscribe to free WhatsApp alerts. You will receive a message within minutes of each new official publication, with the new ₹/kg rate and the change versus the previous day — perfect for procurement, trading desks, and site engineers who cannot keep refreshing the NALCO website.

The full daily price history table is rendered below this article, populated live from our database. Scroll past this section to access the complete archive.

Full NALCO IE07 Price Archive (37 rows)

NALCO IE07 grade S.No.11 · ex-works excl. GST · source: nalcoindia.com

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Citations

1. NALCO Official Daily Price
2. LME Aluminium 3-month price
3. RBI Reference Rates (INR/USD)
4. Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India