Reliance Cement

Reliance Infrastructure To Exit Cement Business By Selling Off Reliance Cement

Anil Ambani, head of the Anil Ambani led Reliance Group has gone on record stating that  the company would look at divesting stake in non-core businesses including cement to bring down debt.

Started in 2007, Reliance Cement is a fully-owned subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure, part of the Anil Ambani led Reliance Group. The interest in the cement business was linked to the growth of its power business with the fly ash waste generated from the Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project being used as a basic raw material.

Reliance Cement had planned on earlier to emerge as the one of the biggest cement players in the country with the largest single location cement facility. It had initially planned to set up four cement plants of 5 MPTA cement capacity each at a massive investment outlay. All the units were to come up in Madhya Pradesh so that they could  leverage on the strengths of the Reliance Group's Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project.

The original blueprint included plans to scale up operations to 15 MTPA over the 3-5 years with integrated cement units in MP and Maharashtra.

Reliance Cement has a total installed capacity of 5.8 MPTA. Out of this 2.8 MTPA is at the mother unit based in Maihar, Madhya Pradesh that was commissioned in 2014. The rest of the cement units are in Kundaganj, Uttar Pradesh and Butiburi, Maharastra.

Reliance Cements is presently marketed in UP, MP, Jharkhand, West Bengal and in parts of Maharashtra.

Posted by Stewart D'Rozario Cement Marketing Consultant from news reports.

UTCL Cement Capacity Increase

UltraTech Cement Increases Cement Capacity

UltraTech Cement Ltd has commissioned a cement grinding unit with a capacity of 1.6 million tonnes at Dankuni in West Bengal. With this capacity addition, the company’s total cement capacity to 65 million tonnes per annum (MPTA).

In the last six months, the company has commissioned three new cement capacity additions, this includes a bulk cement terminal in Maharashtra, another 1.6 MPTA cement grinding unit in Haryana and a cement clinker capacity addition of 2 MPTA in Rajasthan.

With the commissioning of this new cement grinding unit, UltraTech Cement's total cement capacity in East India stands at 9.8 MPTA, when operated at full capacity utilization.

UltraTech Cement, is in the process of acquiring Jaiprakash Associates’ two cement assets in MP which will increase its total cement capacity to 71 MPTA.