New pyro system and cement mills for Manikgarh Cement

Manikgarh Cement Limited, owned by India’s BK Birla Group of Companies, has successfully commissioned a three million t/a cement plant. The cement producer first announced its plans to build a brownfield integrated cement plant in 2010. ­Located in Gadchandur, a town in the Chandrapur District in the State of Maharashtra, Manikgarh Cement (Fig. 1) is a division of Century Textiles & Industries Ltd., owned by the BK Birla Group, which operates within a variety of industries, including textiles, rayon, chemicals, paper & pulp, and cement.

Following a lengthy series of technical and commercial...