Some hard facts about aluminium.

(From Business Line)

KOLKATA, May 13. THE Indian Aluminium Company Ltd (Indal), which has played a pivotal role in pioneering a host of applications in the country for over 60 years, has taken a fresh initiative to inform people about little-known facts and some interesting anecdotes that form a part of the history and future of aluminium.

A booklet called AL Nuggets has been brought out by the Aditya Birla Group company highlighting various facets of the usage of aluminium in the past. It begins with the revelation that James Bond and the villainous Zao - in the hit movie Die Another Day - drove high-performance vehicles that derived their power from the …