India’s cement production capacities under pressure

1 Development of cement production Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com
2 Development of cement consumption Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com
3 Developments in the different cement regions Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com
4 Cement and clinker export figures Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com
5 Expenditure on infrastructure; 12th 5-year plan Source/Quelle: India Planning Commission
6 Cement consumption forecast 2015 Source/Quelle: ACC Limited
7 Development of cement production capacity Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com
8 12 500 t/d Wadi clinker production line Source/Quelle: ACC Limited
9 Ambuja Cement’s Nalagarh grinding plant Source/Quelle: Holcim
10 Development of capacity utilization Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com
11 Ultratech’s Tadpatri cement plant Source/Quelle: KHD
12 Ultratech’s Aditya II cement plant Source/Quelle: KHD
13 ACC’s Wadi cement plant Source/Quelle: FLSmidth
14 Ambuja Cement’s Rauri cement plant Source/Quelle: Polysius
15 Jaypee Cement’s Baga cement plant Source/Quelle: KHD
16 Shree Cement’s Ras cement plant Source/Quelle: KHD
17 Dalmia Cement’s Puram cement plant Source/Quelle: Dalmia Cement
18 Zuari Cement’s Yerraguntla cement plant Source/Quelle: FLSmidth
Gujarat cement plant Source/Quelle: Jaypee Group

India’s cement production capacities grew by an annual average of 11.8 % over the last seven years. However, the cement production rate only rose by 8.1 % in the same period, so that capacity utilisation dropped from over 90 % to only 73 %.

1 Introduction

Current statistics concerning the Indian cement industry are published by the Indian Cement Manufacturers Association (CMA). Since the fiscal year 2010 (FY10 from April 2009 to March 2010) the published statistics do not include the figures from two of the biggest cement producers (ACC and Ambuja Cements) both of which are members of the Holcim Group. Making the situation more difficult, both ACC and Ambuja have changed their fiscal year to match the calendar year. Further factors that makes the situation of the Indian cement industry rather unclear are that some sources include...
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ZKG 04/2012

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ZKG 04/2012

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