National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has successfully developed a Bauxite Certified Reference Material (CRM) naming as BARC B1201. This was achieved in joint collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

NALCO is the Navratna CPSE, under Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India and country’s leading manufacturer and exporter of alumina and aluminium.

This is the first of its kind Bauxite CRM in India and fifth in the World. BARC B1201 was formally launched by Shri M.P. Mishra, Director (P&;T), NALCO and Dr. A. C. Sahayam, Head of Division, National Centre for Compositional Characterisation of Materials in the presence of senior officials of NALCO and BARC at NALCO Research & Technology Centre, Bhubaneswar on 24th March 2023.

NALCO CMD , Shri Sridhar Patra said that this new product will act as an import substitution for use by Industries, Research Laboratories and Academic Institutions as a calibration standard  in evaluating analytical methods, performance of Instruments, and data quality control in routine analysis of bauxite.