UltraTech commissions 1 million tonne capacity at unit in Roorkee, Uttarakhand

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

UltraTech Cement has commissioned 1 million tonne of brownfield capacity at its plant at Roorkee in Uttarakhand, taking the unit’s total capacity to 2.1 million tonne per year.

“This forms part of the 22.6 mtpa capacity expansion announced in June, 2022,” the company said in an exchange filing on Friday.

UltraTech, a part of the Aditya Birla Group, is the largest producer of cement in the country, and with Friday’s commissioning, has the capacity to produce 138.39 million tonne of grey cement each year.

At its annual general meeting last year, chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla had said that the company plans to raise its capacity to 200 million tonne each year.

In October last year, the company announced an investment of 13,000 crore rupees to add 21.9 million tonne to its existing capacity through a combination of greenfield and brownfield expansion.

UltraTech has invested more than 50,000 crore rupees over the last seven years. It has acquired several smaller cement units, including the assets of Jaiprakash Associates over the last few years. The company is currently the third-largest producer of cement in the world, outside of China.