State-run aluminium maker Nalco has produced a record 6.825 million tonnes (MT) of bauxite in 2016-17 fiscal. This is 7.65 per cent higher as compared to 6.340 MT bauxite produced in 2015-16, the company said in a report.

The company’s aluminium output grew 4 per cent to 0.387 MT in last fiscal from 0.372 MT in the previous fiscal, it said. Bauxite is an important ore of aluminium, a metal widely used by automobile industry for making aircraft, among other uses.