Hindalco Innovation Centre for Copper

About us

The Hindalco Innovation Centre for Copper (HICC) represents a specialised team dedicated to the development of cutting-edge advancements in the area of copper processing, production and by-products. This includes innovations in copper conversion to enhance efficiency and purity, smelting techniques to optimise metal extraction, and electro-refining processes to achieve higher purity levels.

Our expertise and major focus areas encompass

Improvement in copper cathode and copper rod quality
Improvement in anode quality and optimisation of surface and chemical quality
Process efficiency improvement and cost savings
Increased copper, gold and silver recovery
Development of processes for the recovery of other metals (Se, Te, Ni, Fe, Bi, Sb, etc)
Sustainable solutions to reuse copper slag and fly ash and create value from waste
Achieve zero hazardous gypsum generation
Digitalise operations for process efficiency
Work in progress reduction and improved throughput
New product development

Verticals

Smelting and conversion
Refining, PMR and by-products
Product and application

HICC research facilities

Patent

1	Method for recovery of copper from copper refinery bleed	Granted, Patent No. 512368	Hindalco	Pappulal Dhobi, Bhaskar Joshi, Dr. Ramanarao, Biswadip Basu, and Pradip Kumar Banerjee
2	A novel process for vanadium recovery from vanadium bearing sludge using industrial spent acid	Granted, Patent No. 506589	Hindalco	Pappu Lal Dhobi, Rashmi Gupta, Bhaskar Joshi, Vijayendra R Gurjar, Kaushik Vakil, Dr. Nageswar Kapuri, and Dr. Pradip Banerjee
3	Process of gold recovery from dore slag	Granted, Patent No. 548500	Hindalco	Pappulal Dhobi (MCoE, HICC Dahej) and Bhaskar Joshi (HIC - Copper)
4	A method of improving metal recovery from discarded slag	Granted, Patent No. 509848	Hindalco and ABSTCL	Bhavin Desai, Lakshmikanth Reddy, Vilas Tathavadkar, Viram Mithapara, Sandeep Rehani, Kaushik Vakil and Sokkuraj Kanakanand
5	Treatment of hazardous solid waste generated in copper manufacturing process	Granted, Patent No. 365200	Hindalco and ABSTCL	Bhavin Desai and Pappu Lal Dhobi