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.