Hindalco Industries Ltd. (BSE: 500440, NSE: HINDALCO) is one of the world's largest aluminum manufacturing companies and is a subsidiary of the Aditya Birla Group. It is run by one of the world's youngest billionaires, Kumar Mangalam Birla.

The company has annual sales of US$5 billion and employs 13,675 people and is listed on Forbes 2000. A metals powerhouse with a turnover of US$14 billion, Hindalco is one of the world's largest aluminium rolling companies and one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia.

The Hindustan Aluminum Corporation Limited was established in 1958 by the Aditya Birla Group. In 1962 the company began production in Renukoot in Uttar Pradesh making 20 billion metric tons per year of aluminum metal and 40 billion metric tons per year of alumina. In 1989 the company was restructured and renamed Hindalco.

On February 11, 2007, the company entered into an agreement to acquire the Canadian company Novelis for US$6 billion, making the combined entity the world's largest rolled-aluminium producer. At 2007 Novelis was the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum and a major recycler of aluminum cans. On May 15, 2007, the acquisition was completed with Novelis shareholders receiving $44.93 per outstanding share of common stock.

Kumar Mangalam Birla (Hindi: कुमार मंगलम बिड़ला) is an Indian industrialist and the Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerate corporations in India. He is also the Chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science.

Kumar Mangalam Birla is a fourth generation member of the Marwari business Birla family from state of Rajasthan. A chartered accountant by profession,earned commerce degree from HR College of Commerce and Economics,Mumbai and also has an MBA from the London Business School, where he is an Honorary Fellow. He also has several honorary doctorate degrees.

Birla is married to Neerja Birla. They have three children: Ananyashree, Aryaman Vikram and Advaitesha..