JSW Cement's 2.4 MPTA Capacity Addition

JSW Add 2.4 MPTA To Capacity With Proposed Cement Grinding Unit

Head of the $11 Billion JSW group, Sajjan Jindal has gone on record stating that the group will be investing Rs 700 crore in setting up a 2.4-million tonne cement grinding unit at Salboni in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. JSW group Chairman Sajjan Jindal said that the group had decided on a cement grinding unit at Salboni where a 10 MT steel plant was earlier planned.

The cement divsion of the JSW group has an installed cement capacity of 6 MTPA. Cement clinker and slag supply sources, raw materials for the cement grinding have already been finalised. With the completion of this cement grinding project, JSW will have a cement capacity of 8.4 MPTA.

JSW cement has plants at Vijayanagar in Karnataka and Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh & Dolvi in Maharashtra. Key cement markets include Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, and Goa.

Reliance Cement's Online Portal

Online Sales Of Cement

Reliance Cement Company Pvt. Ltd (RCCPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd., part of the Rs.9000 crore Reliance Group, announced its foray into the online space to market cement through it's online portal

https://iss.reliancecement.com/etail/

The e-tailing facility is stated to be available for a minimum order of 25 bags and will be delivered to the customer within 48 hours of placing of a firm order. Initially, the e-tailing facility is to be available in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The cement company currently produces 5.8 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) cement. A 2.8 MPTA integrated cement unit at Maihar in MP, a 2.2 MPTA cement grinding unit at Kundaganj in UP and 0.5 MPTA cement grinding unit at Butibori in Maharastra. Reliance cement also have a marketing tie-up at Durgapur in West Bengal to the tune of 0.3 MPTA of cement.

Reliance cement has set up ambitious expansion plans to become a cement major and hopes to achieve a total manufacturing capacity of 15.5 MTPA over the next few years by completing two plants of 5 MTPA each at Maihar in Madhya Pradesh and Muktaban in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra.

Cheer For The Cement Industry

Infrastructure Plans To Bring Cheer To The Cement Industry

In a recent interview, Transport and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari has promised to add two percentage points to India’s economic growth within the next two years. A great deal of development projects are stalled by land and environmental disputes. Road projects most of which are cement based roads, worth more than US$9 billion are among these stalled projects, tied up in red tape.

By March 2016, he goes on to say, he has plans to be building roads at a rate of more than 30 km per day. In the next three years, he wants to complete US$75 billion of infrastructure projects. Of interest to the cement industry is his statement, “We have now decided to make all roads of cement and concrete". If the progress on India’s infrastructure projects meets Gadkari’s projection, it will be good news for the cement industry, which is facing a slowdown in the most recent results released, with the exception of south-based cement companies who have put on a better show on account of better cement market prices and cement production discipline.

17th Asia CemenTrade Summit - 2015

Major Cement Producers To Meet in Bali, Indonesia

On two days, 20th and 21st October, 2015, Bali, Indonesia will host the 17th Asia CemenTrade Summit, with up-to-date review of the cement market growth in Asian countries, particularly Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Nepal, Myanmar and Laos with particular emphasis on infrastructure.

Healthy infrastructure development in Asia leading to increased demand for cement will be a core theme when major local, regional and global cement producers meet on 20th and 21st October in Bali.

The Indian viewpoint will be highlighted with a paper on: ‘India's Cement Demand under Modi's Government' presented by Ajay Kapur, MD & CEO, Ambuja Cements.

Other papers will be presented on various cement industry issues by participating countries.

Other summit highlights will be:
Global Economic Outlook – David Sumual, Chief Economist, PT Bank Central Asia.
Global Trends in The Cement Industry – Imran Akram, CEO, IA Cement.
Japan Cement & Cementitious Materials Market & Trade Outlook – Makoto Nakano, CEO, Marubeni Cement and Construction Materials Co.
Recent Trends in Dry Bulk Shipping Market: Implications for Cement and Clinker Transportation – Owen Mulford, Manager - Industrial Bulk, Norden Shipping.
Current Trends of Dry Mix Mortar in South East Asia – Malik Jamal Jaffar Ali, Senior Technical Service Manager, Wacker Chemicals.

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