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This gap needs to be filled urgently.Lokesh Srivastava, COO of TAL Manufacturing Solutions Limited stressed on the aerospace industry. Hence the aluminium industry can take this opportunity head on. Agnihotri said that there was a visible gap between the primary and the downstream industry which has limited the use of aluminium to just 2.2kg per capita. He said aluminium was a strategic metal and had as many as 300 applications. He said that even reducing the weight of the carrier by one kilogram can save several gallons of fuel.T K Chand, the CMD of the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) stressed on the need of diversifying the aluminium products and switching to value added products..