as nse hindzinc bse 500188 industry mining & smelting founded new delhi india 1966 headquarters udaipur india area served india key people chairman mr. agnivesh agarwal ceo mr. sunil duggal cfo mr. amitabh gupta products zinc lead silver cadmium 1 revenue 14 788 crores fy 2015 number of employees 6742 website www.hzlindia.com hindustan zinc limited hzl is an integrated mining and resources producer of zinc lead silver and cadmium . it is a subsidiary of vedanta resources plc. hzl is the world s second largest zinc producer . its fy2015 revenues were rs . 147.9 billion . 2 contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 mining 2.2 smelting 3 references history edit hindustan zinc limited was incorporated from the erstwhile metal corporation of india on 10 january 1966 as a public sector undertaking . in 2001 as part of the government s disinvestment program of loss making psus the company was put up for sale . 3 in april 2002 sterlite opportunities and ventures limited sovl made an open offer for acquisition of shares of the company ; consequent to the disinvestment of government of india s goi stake of 26 % including management control to sovl and acquired additional 20 % of shares from public pursuant to the sebi regulations 1997 . in august 2003 sovl acquired additional shares to the extent of 18.92 % of the paid up capital from goi in exercise of call option clause in the share holder s agreement between goi and sovl . with the above additional acquisition sovl s stake in the company has gone up to 64.92 % . thus goi s stake in the company now stands at 29.54 % . sovl was merged with sterlite industries india ltd in april 2011 . 4 sterlite industries merged with sesa goa ltd to form sesa sterlite limited in august 2013 . sesa sterlite was renamed to vedanta limited in april 2015 . 5 hindustan zinc is now a direct subsidiary of vedanta limited . operations edit mining edit hzl operates the world s third largest open pit mine and world s largest zinc mine in rampura agucha rajasthan . other mines with hzl are located in sindesar khurd rajpura dariba kayar and zawar all in rajasthan . 6 hzl is one of the lowest cost zinc producers in the world . 7 smelting edit hzl operates zinc and lead smelters and refineries at chanderiya chittorgarh debari udaipur & dariba rajsamand in rajasthan with total zinc and lead production capacity of 1.0 million tonnes . a smelting facility was established at pantnagar in uttarakhand . it was initially intended to serve as a smelting facility for silver production but later zinc and lead melting and casting plants were also established here . the total metal production was 880 000 tonnes for year 2014 2015 . 8 it also has zinc smelter in vizag andhra pradesh where operations have been suspended since february 2012 . 9 references edit http www.hzlindia.com products.aspx page 49 annual report 2010 11 1 directors report fy 2013 of sterlite industries . pg 77 of vedanta limited annual report fy 2015 pdf . http www.hzlindia.com operations.aspx id 2 lead and zinc mine cost study annual report fy 2015 pg 11 pdf . annual report fy 2013 pg 65 pdf . v t e organizations based in udaipur it advaiya arcgate econnect elixir technologies pvt. ltd. hardware and electronics amkette lipi data systems ltd. pyrotech electronics pvt. ltd. secure meters ltd. tempsens instruments i pvt. ltd. chemicals p i industries ltd. wolkem india ltd. hospitality h r h group of hotels mining hindustan zinc rajasthan state mines and minerals limited banks bank of rajasthan cement udaipur cement works limited construction real estate techno creation india private limited finance udaipur chamber of commerce and industry ngos narayan seva sansthan seva mandir retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hindustan zinc & oldid 714681962 categories economy of udaipurcompanies based in new delhimining companies of indiaeconomy of rajasthanzinc minesformerly government owned companies of indiamining in rajasthanorganisations based in udaipurhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 april 2016 at 06 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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