Vedanta & V-Spark To Scale Deep Tech Initiatives
Through Vedanta Aluminium’s MetALverse event, they will deploy innovative, multi-pronged solutions to cumulatively unlock up to INR 2,100 crore in value.
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Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest aluminium producer, in collaboration with V-Spark, announced partnerships with several cutting-edge technology providers, including market leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft and SAP. Together, they will deploy innovative, multi-pronged solutions to cumulatively unlock up to INR 2,100 crore in value through the enhanced adoption of AI, digitalisation and automation technologies across Vedanta Aluminium’s operations.
Vedanta Aluminium’s MetALverse event, an immersive tech showcase in Jharsuguda, Odisha was envisioned as a strategic platform to accelerate the deployment of breakthrough technologies across large-scale industrial operations, by bringing together global technology leaders, emerging startups, and top business experts. The partnerships will focus on evaluating, piloting and scaling next-generation solutions across Vedanta Aluminium’s operations. The value opportunity will be achieved through the integration of innovative solutions for enhanced plant productivity, cost optimisation, asset reliability and sustainability initiatives across Vedanta Aluminium’s integrated value chain.
Priya Agarwal Hebbar, Non-Executive Director, Vedanta Limited and Chairperson, Hindustan Zinc, said “India’s manufacturing sector is entering a defining decade. The future will belong to companies that combine scale with intelligence, sustainability and the courage to rethink what is possible. At Vedanta Aluminium, we see AI as a catalyst for that transformation, with human intelligence providing the judgement and direction behind it. We are bringing together the best minds across industry and technology because we don’t want to simply make today’s plants better. We want to build the metal of the future, using the technologies of the future.”
Akarsh Hebbar, Non-Executive Vice Chairman, Vedanta Aluminium and Chairman, V-Spark DeepTech Ventures, said “The greatest opportunity in industrial innovation lies in deploying new technologies at scale to create measurable business value. Vedanta Aluminium, as one of the top producers of the metal of the future globally, provides the expansive operating footprint, technical depth and determination to industrialise breakthrough solutions, while V-Spark is the engine that identifies, validates and accelerates these technologies from concept to enterprise-wide deployment. We aim to partner with several industrial solutions to scale and transform creative innovation into tangible productivity gains, stronger sustainability, enhanced reliability and significant value creation.”
These collaborations will focus on technical evaluation, data integration, pilot deployment and scale-up potential. Through its V-Spark innovation ecosystem, the company aims to rapidly validate and deploy solutions that strengthen productivity, safety, sustainability, asset reliability and operational decision-making. Presently, Vedanta Aluminium is actively collaborating with nearly 70 startups under the program, spanning one of the world’s largest alumina refineries in Lanjigarh, Odisha, the world’s largest single-location aluminium plant in Jharsuguda, Odisha, and India’s iconic aluminium producer, BALCO in Korba, Chhattisgarh.
Vedanta Aluminium, India’s largest aluminium producer, in collaboration with V-Spark, announced partnerships with several cutting-edge technology providers, including market leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft and SAP. Together, they will deploy innovative, multi-pronged solutions to cumulatively unlock up to INR 2,100 crore in value through the enhanced adoption of AI, digitalisation and automation technologies across Vedanta Aluminium’s operations.
Vedanta Aluminium’s MetALverse event, an immersive tech showcase in Jharsuguda, Odisha was envisioned as a strategic platform to accelerate the deployment of breakthrough technologies across large-scale industrial operations, by bringing together global technology leaders, emerging startups, and top business experts. The partnerships will focus on evaluating, piloting and scaling next-generation solutions across Vedanta Aluminium’s operations. The value opportunity will be achieved through the integration of innovative solutions for enhanced plant productivity, cost optimisation, asset reliability and sustainability initiatives across Vedanta Aluminium’s integrated value chain.
Priya Agarwal Hebbar, Non-Executive Director, Vedanta Limited and Chairperson, Hindustan Zinc, said “India’s manufacturing sector is entering a defining decade. The future will belong to companies that combine scale with intelligence, sustainability and the courage to rethink what is possible. At Vedanta Aluminium, we see AI as a catalyst for that transformation, with human intelligence providing the judgement and direction behind it. We are bringing together the best minds across industry and technology because we don’t want to simply make today’s plants better. We want to build the metal of the future, using the technologies of the future.”
Akarsh Hebbar, Non-Executive Vice Chairman, Vedanta Aluminium and Chairman, V-Spark DeepTech Ventures, said “The greatest opportunity in industrial innovation lies in deploying new technologies at scale to create measurable business value. Vedanta Aluminium, as one of the top producers of the metal of the future globally, provides the expansive operating footprint, technical depth and determination to industrialise breakthrough solutions, while V-Spark is the engine that identifies, validates and accelerates these technologies from concept to enterprise-wide deployment. We aim to partner with several industrial solutions to scale and transform creative innovation into tangible productivity gains, stronger sustainability, enhanced reliability and significant value creation.”
