{"id":457694,"date":"2021-12-21T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457694"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T07:38:26","slug":"vedanta-acquires-goa-based-nickel-and-cobalt-producer-nicomet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vedanta-acquires-goa-based-nickel-and-cobalt-producer-nicomet\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedanta acquires Goa-based nickel and cobalt producer Nicomet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vedanta has acquired Nicomet, a leading nickel and cobalt producer based in Goa, for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p>The Anil Agarwal-company has become the only nickel producer in the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia imports 100 per cent of its nickel requirements and our focus will be to boost domestic production that would fuel India\u2019s transition to a net zero economy,\u201d Anil Agarwal, chairman of Vedanta, said.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe are excited about Vedanta\u2019s foray into nickel and cobalt production which will play a critical role in supporting the government\u2019s mission for an Atma Nirbhar Bharat. Nickel and cobalt are a metal of great strategic importance, especially for our transition towards clean energy and electric mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vedanta has acquired Nicomet, a leading nickel and cobalt producer based in Goa, for an undisclosed amount. The Anil Agarwal-company has become the only nickel producer in the country. \u201cIndia imports 100 per cent of its nickel requirements and our focus will be to boost domestic production that would fuel India\u2019s transition to a net zero economy,\u201d Anil Agarwal, chairman of Vedanta, said. He said: \u201cWe are excited about Vedanta\u2019s foray into nickel and cobalt production which will play a critical role in supporting the government\u2019s mission for an Atma Nirbhar Bharat. Nickel and cobalt are a metal of great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}