Rajkot aluminium foundries run mostly on furnace oil: does CBAM reach their castings and extrusions?

Extrusions and window frames, yes: CN 7604 and 7610 are covered. Castings only when declared under 7616, not as machine or vehicle parts. Rajkot's about 60 aluminium units use about 2,775 toe a year, 64% of it furnace oil, and its 20 extruders alone burn 1,974 toe. That oil is your CBAM figure.

Rajkot's aluminium units in numbers

• About 60 units: 21 sand casting (790 t a year), 19 gravity die casting (2,628 t) and 20 extrusion (6,252 t), about 9,670 t in all.
• Energy about 2,775 toe a year: furnace oil 1,807 kL (1,784 toe, 64%), electricity 5.7 million kWh, coke 756 t, LPG 36 t.
• Extrusion units use 1,974 toe, sand casting 207 and GDC 594.
• Main input is scrap and LM-grade ingot. Extruders melt scrap in oil-fired furnaces into billets, then reheat billets in box furnaces at 450 to 500 °C.

Which of your goods CBAM reaches

• Profiles, tubes, tracks and sections under CN 7604 and 7608: covered.
• Window and door frames under 7610: covered.
• Generic cast articles under 7616 99 10: covered.
• Pistons, engine parts and compressor parts classed in chapters 84 or 87: not covered today.
• Your EU importer's CN code decides, and importers bringing in 50 t or less of CBAM goods a year are exempt.

Why furnace oil is nearly the whole figure

Aluminium counts direct emissions only, so your power bills stay out. Scrap carries zero embedded emissions. For a scrap-based extruder that leaves the oil burnt in the melting, holding and reheating furnaces. Bought LM-grade ingot or billet is different: each lot brings its maker's figure, or the default value, as a precursor.

What to keep from this month

• Furnace oil invoices and tank dips at month start and end, per furnace if you can.
• Scrap and ingot purchases in tonnes, with supplier and whether scrap is pre-consumer or post-consumer.
• Despatch tonnes by CN code, counting only goods that meet sale specifications.
• Any recuperator or furnace relining, with dates, so a drop in oil per tonne is explained.

Worked example: a typical Rajkot extrusion unit

• Thermal energy: 88 toe a year; at the cluster's 1,807 kL per 1,784 toe, about 89 kL of furnace oil
• CO2: 89,000 L x 2.97 kg = about 264 t a year
• Output: 6,252 t / 20 units = about 313 t of profiles a year
• Direct figure: 264 / 313 = about 0.85 t CO2 per tonne, scrap at zero, power not counted
• India default for profiles with the 2026 mark-up: 3.444 x 1.10 = 3.788 t per tonne

Estimate from TERI's 2016 averages, with all thermal energy taken as furnace oil. A unit buying ingot instead of scrap adds that ingot's figure. Use your own logs.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads your furnace oil, scrap and ingot invoices into monthly records and its CBAM tools turn them into the per-tonne figure by CN code that your EU importer asks for, traced to each bill.

• CBAM for Indian exporters
• Are aluminium castings covered
• Fuel per tonne in a scrap furnace
• Aluminium windows and doors

Sources: TERI, Cluster profile: Rajkot aluminium foundries (SAMEEEKSHA, 2016), CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated, Annexes I and II, Regulation (EU) 2025/2083, 50 tonne threshold, European Commission, default values file (version of 6 August 2026), India sheet, European Commission, CBAM Guidance No. 5e, aluminium (scrap at zero embedded emissions)

Last reviewed 2026-10-30. Cluster energy is from TERI's 2016 profile. Recheck the default values and the 2028 downstream extension proposal.