MUMBAI -- From setting up textile mills in Thailand in the 1960s to starting a palm oil refinery in Malaysia the following decade, India's Aditya Birla Group has long been used to operating abroad. But the sprawling cloth-to-metals conglomerate's push to build a $2.5 billion aluminum plant in the southern U.S. state of Alabama opens a new chapter in its global expansion.
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Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla in spotlight over Alabama plans
Giant company expects to build $2.5 billion aluminum plant in U.S. state
Novelis, the U.S. unit of Birla-owned metals giant Hindalco Industries, has started work on an aluminum plant in Alabama. (Source photo by Reuters and the Aditya Birla Group)
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