Hirma Cement works of UltraTech in India installed an HPGR (roller press) by KHD Humboldt Wedag for pre-grinding of PCC with high slag content. The roller press has HCB (High Chrome Bandage) rollers, which after 3500 running hours still performs…
India’s Shree Cement announced a significant greenfield expansion in Meghalaya in northeast India. The integrated plant shall have about 1.0 Mta clinker and cement capacity and will be installed in the East Jaintia Hills district. At the moment the company…
JK Lakshmi Cement, a flagship company of India’s JK Organisation, is expanding the clinker capacity at its integrated cement plant at Durg in Chhattisgarh by installing a 2nd line of 2.3 Mta and 4 cement grinding units, aggregating to 4.6…
India’s Ambuja Cement is on track to expand its 109 Mta cement and 66 Mta clinker capacity at the end of 3Q 2026 to 117 Mta cement and to 69 Mta clinker capacity by the end of March, which corresponds…
With the commissioning of cement plants in Raipur, Hyderabad and Kolkata, Shree Cement has been able to achieve in India a cement production capacity of 62.8 Mta beginning of this year (we reported here 05.01.2026, photo: Raipur plant). The 3.9…
Star Cement began operations of the Cachar 2.0 Mta grinding unit near to Silchar City in Assam in North-East India. Accordingly, Star Cement increased their cement capacity from 7.7 to 9.7 Mta (photo: 2.0 Mta Mohitnagar grinding unit). The new…
UltraTech announced the commissioning of a second grinding unit (GU) at its Aligarh plant (photo) in Uttar Predesh in India. With the addition of 2.7 Mta capacity the grinding capacity of the plant now stands at 4.0 Mta, increasing the…
India’s JK Cement commissioned this week the 3.0 Mta split grinding plant at Bihar (photo: Split grinding unit at Jhajjar). This expansion is in line with the recent grey cement capacity expansions at Panna, Prajagray and Hamirpur with 1.0 Mta…
In the first 9 months in FY 2025-26 the cement production in India increased by +8.8% to 381.0 Mt, after 350.2 Mt in the same period last year and 333.8 Mt in the year before.
UltraTech Cement has placed an order for seven vertical roller mills (VRM) from Gebr. Pfeiffer as part of its ongoing capacity expansion programme across its cement plants in India. The VRMs (Photo: Gebr. Pfeiffer coal mill at UltraTech’s Maihar plant)…