India’s Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd (DCBL) commenced trial production at its 9500 tpd (3.6 Mta) clinker line in Umrangso, Assam, which shall be operational by 3Q FY2026, supplied by KHD Humboldt Wedag (Photo: plant during construction). DCBL projects a cement…
India’s JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd. has commissioned a 2nd grinding unit in Surat with a capacity of 1.35 Mta. Alongside this, the company has completed a debottlenecking of the JKP cement mill in Rajasthan and expanded the cement capacity to…
India’s UltraTech Cement celebrated the inauguration of the 3.32 Mta brownfield cement line Nathdwara in Binanigram in Rajasthan,end of September. The ceremony was headed by the Honorable Chairman Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla of the Aditya Birla Group. The new line…
As part of their large cement capacity expansion program, UltraTech Cement celebrated groundbreaking of the second Cuttack grinding unit (photo) in Bhubaneswa, Odisha in India. The Cuttack GU expansion requires an investment of Rs 372 Crore (about US$ 42.2m) and…
Birla Corporation Ltd, the flagship company of India’s M P Birla Group, announced plans to strengthen its core cement business with a proposed capital expenditure of Rs 4,335 crore. The company operates four cement plants in Satna (photo), Chanderia, Durgapur…
India’s Ramco Cements has commissioned an 8MW waste heat recovery (WHR) system at its Ramasamy Raja Nagar cement plant (photo) in Virudhu Nagar in Tamil Nadu. With this installation the WHR generation of the 3 Mta integrated plant has increased…
Nuvoco Vistas Corp., India’s fifth largest cement player in terms of capacity, announced expansion plans. The business strategy of the company foresees expansion the cement grinding capacity by 4.0 Mta with an investment of INR 200 crores through a new…
The generation of fly ash from power plants in India increased in 5 years from 226.1 Mta in FY19-20 to 334 Mta in FY24-25. In the same period, the utilization (including roads, cement, brick, backfilling, etc.) has been on the…
The board of India’s JK Cement has approved a major greenfield capacity expansion. After receiving the environmental clearance for the Jaisalmer integrated plant in Rajasthan, it has been decided to install a 4.0 Mta clinker line and a 3.0 Mta…
A few days ago, the website ’www.moneycontrol.com’ reported that JK Lakshmi Cement and Chettinad Cement were bidding to acquire India’s Deccan Cements Ltd. amid the Andhra infrastructure push. However, Deccan’s company secretary wished to state that the company has promptly…