Birla Corp may hike cement prices by upto INR 10 per bag

A shift to gross calorific value method by Coal India for pricing its coal is seen pushing up cement prices. Cement producer Birla Corp’s production costs have risen by INR 8 to INR 10 per 50 kg bag.

Mr PK Chand CFO said that this may prompt Birla Corp and other cement makers to hike prices, as the increase can be passed on to consumers during January to June when the demand is high.

He said that “Input prices have risen so much that cement producers are already contemplating taking a increase of about INR 5 to INR 10 a bag.”

(Sourced from DNA)

Birla Corp plans INR 1500 crore CAPEX in next two years

Birla Corporation, the flagship of the MP Birla group of companies, plans to spend INR 1,500 crore to INR 1,600 crore in capital expenditure to enhance its cement manufacturing and handling capacity and hike captive power generation capacity to support the expanded output.

The company that operates primarily in east and north India is at present implementing a 1.2 million tonne per annum Brownfield expansion project at Chittorgarh district in Rajasthan, which is expected to be commissioned by the end of this financial year, along with a 700,000 tonne per annum expansion at its cement facility at Durgapur in West Bengal. 

A top company official told Financial Chronicle that “The CAPEX for the next two years includes expansion of our cement capacity by setting up a coal washery at our Satna unit in Madhya Pradesh, setting up a 50 MW captive power plant at Chittorgarh and a 35 MW project at Satna.”

The company plans to source petroleum coke from Reliance Industry’s Jamnagar refinery and IndianOil’s Panipat refinery, and import coal to run the Chittorgarh plant. To support its 1.73 million tonne per annum cement plant in Madhya Pradesh, the company is setting up a coal washery, which will help improve calorific value of locally produced coal that contains many impurities. The washery is expected to be commissioned in the financial year 2012-2013.

At its Durgapur cement manufacturing facilities, which have been plagued by low capacity utilization, the company has invested in infrastructure for prompt dispatch of the produce, as transportation was the chief bottleneck in that region.

The official said that “We have constructed a railway platform to enable loading of cement on rail rakes and have invested in loading machines that have significantly increased our capacity to dispatch goods.”

The company is also in the process of signing a JV agreement with the Assam government to set up a 1 million tonne Greenfield cement plant at Umrangsu in the North Cachar Hills district at a cost of INR 450 crore through a joint venture company.

The state government has agreed to provide limestone, which is one of the chief ingredients, required for cement manufacturing in lieu of a 26 per cent stake for the Assam Mineral Development Corporation and a facilitation fee per tonne of limestone. The JV will source coal for firing its cement kilns from the neighboring Meghalaya.

(Sourced from www.mydigitalfc.com)

Maihar Cement Satna

Maihar Cement is a division of Century Textiles and Industries Ltd, a flagship company of BK Birla Group.  The company is well diversified having interest in cement, textiles, rayon, chemicals,  pulp and paper.All Cement plants are equipped with captive power plants, which is not only ensure an uninterrupted power supply, but also help company substantially on power cost, as the own generated power is quite economical as compared to grid power.

Maihar Cement is situated at Sarlanagar (Maihar) Dist. Satna in the State of Madhya Pradesh with an installed capacity of 3.80 Million TPA. Maihar is 45 Kms South - East of Satna on Howrah - Mumbai Central Railway Main Line.  Maihar is well known for Sharda Devi Temple and Maihar Gharana Music whose proponent was renowned Musician padma Vibhushan Baba Allaudin Khan.

Apart from this, company has two more cement plants namely Century Cement at Baikunth, Dist. Raipur in the State of Chhattisgarh with an installed capacity of 2.10 Million TPA and  Manikgarh Cement at Gadchandur, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra with an installed capacity of 1.90 Million TPA.   The combined Capacity of all cement plants  taken altogether is 7.80 Million TPA.  More emphasis is given for production of blended cement which constitutes about 95% of the total cement produced by the company.

Jaypee Cement Satna

We are an Indian power company, incorporated on Dec 21, 1994, that is part of India’s leading Infrastructure conglomerate - Jaypee Group. We plan, develop, implement and operate power projects in India. We currently operate the largest hydroelectric power plant in the private sector in India. Our power projects which are in different stages of implementation include Hydro, Thermal and Transmission.

The Jaypee Group is a diversified infrastructure conglomerate in India with interests in Civil Engineering and Construction, Cement, Power, Real Estate, Expressways, Hospitality, Golf Courses and Education (not-for-profit). We believe we benefit from the Jaypee Group’s experience in the conceptualization, design, development, construction and operation of hydroelectric power plants. Together with the Jaypee Group, we are able to manage multiple aspects of power projects, from front-end engineering design to completion, operation and maintenance.

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Jaypee Group is a leading civil engineering and cement manufacturing company with interests in real estate and hospitality industry. A company that dares to dream the impossible and then goes on to achieve it. We are a professionally managed public company offering immense opportunities to learn and grow. This ability to learn and grow is at the heart of our success. We boost of an environment where people come and deliver their best not because they have to but because they want to. 

If you have talent and zeal to aspire for higher, we will provide you the opportunity. A conducive and vibrant work culture, opportunities to learn and grow.

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History of Cement

Manufacture of cement has a history, which traces back to millennia. The Romans who were prolific builders used burnt calcareous (calcium bearing) rocks along with pozzolanic materials in an era Before Christ. The structures built by them, like the Pantheon, are still there for us to see proving the goodness of cementitious materials as input material for construction.Post industrialization and as infrastructure development started globally, demands for cement have been growing steadily both quantitatively & qualitatively.

India is the second largest cement producer in the world after China and cement consumption has been growing at a CAGR of over 8% p.a. in the last five years.

The group cement facilities are located in the Satna cluster, which has one of the highest cement production growth rates in India .

Birla Cement Satna

The Satna units received the Quality Circle Excellence Award from Quality Circle Forum of India, Durgapur Chapter; Quality Circle Excellence Award and Quality Circle Distinguish Award from Quality Circle Forum of India. the cement is marketed under the brand names of Birla Cement SAMRAT, Birla Cement KHAJURAHO, Birla Cement CHETAK, Birla Cement and Birla Premium Cement, bringing the product under the common brand of Birla Cement while retaining the niche identity of SAMRAT for blended cement, i.e. PPC & PSC, for all the units, KHAJURAHO (for the OPC product of Satna) and CHETAK (for the OPC product of Chanderia).

The Division exports large quantities of cement to Nepal, under the brand names of Birla Cement Samrat, Birla Cement Khajuraho and Birla Cement. The special variety of Birla Cement SAMRAT, being produced by the company, is ideal for mass concrete, RCC/pre-stressed/precast structure (for reduced thermal crack), increased water tightness of concrete, increased resistance to sulphate soils and aggressive water and increased resistance to alkali aggregate reaction besides corrosion resistant properties.