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IKN cooler is commissioned at Maihar cement plant

The IKN Pendulum cooler at UltraTech Maihar ( Aditya Birla Group ) has successfully begun operations with a 24-hour trial run. The startup was marked by a traditional Pooja ceremony, in line w...
News - 17 December 2024

UltraTech transports gypsum on National Waterway 1

UltraTech Cement Ltd is leveraging inland waterways to transport a large consignment of mineral gypsum via National Waterway 1 (Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system) in a pilot project. This p...
News - 16 December 2024

Ambuja Cements commissions 200MW solar plant in Khavda

Ambuja Cements (India), a subsidiary of the Adani Group, has successfully commissioned a 200MW solar power project in Khavda, Gujarat. This significant development underscores the company's comm...
News - 13 December 2024

CCI reviews UltraTech's acquisition of India Cements

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has initiated a review of UltraTech Cement ’s proposed acquisition of India Cements. UltraTech Cement disclosed in an exchange filing that it has receive...
News - 10 December 2024

UltraTech Cement de-bottlenecks Kukurdih plant

As part of its ongoing capacity expansion programmes, UltraTech Cement has identified an opportunity for debottlenecking at its integrated unit at Kukurdih, Chhattisgarh. The unit’s capacit...
News - 02 December 2024

Oil is stable while coal falls back and petcoke sees lows with discounts slipping

Following Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential elections the energy markets already reacted on several fronts in anticipation of new US policies. An increase in US production of oil and gas i...
News - 02 December 2024

USG Supramax/Ultramax market under pressure of limited cargo stems

The USG Supramax/Ultramax freight market started the month on a positive mode as more petcoke, coal and grain cargoes were offered for shipments to Far East, southeast Asia, India. Closer to the e...
News - 27 November 2024

UltraTech Cement scales up e-truck deployment to cut CO2 emissions

UltraTech Cement is ramping up its adoption of electric trucks as part of its sustainable transportation strategy, supporting the Government of India’s eFAST initiative. Following the successfu...
News - 25 November 2024

India bets on robust demand

Over the last year, India’s economic growth decelerated. GDP has hit the lowest point in the last five quarters during the April-June 2024 quarter (see Table 1). Inflation, in particular retail in...
new site articles - 25 November 2024

India’s shrinking carbon footprint

ICR: What are the key measures used by Indian cement companies to reduce their carbon footprint? Dr L P Singh (LPS): Globally, the cement sector generates about seven per cent of the total ant...
new site articles - 25 November 2024