Cost Leader in Indian Cement Industry

Gujarat Ambuja

Established as Ambuja Cements Private Ltd. In 1981 by Narotam Satyanarayan Sekhsaria.

With support of GIIC , seksaria and his two partners, suresh Neotia and Vinod Neotia, set up ACPL.

In 1983, company floated a public issue and its name was changed to GACL.

Its production started at a 0.7 million tons per annum(mtpa)

Gujarat Ambuja

Plants

Year Name of Plant City Capacity

1983 Ambuja Cements

Ambuja Nagar,Gujarat

0.7 mtpa

1993 GujAmbuja Cements

Ambuja Nagar 1.0 mtpa

1995 Ambuja Cements Himachal Unit

Suli , Himachal Pradesh

1.5 mtpa

1996 Guj Line – II Ambuja Nagar, Gujarat

1.0 mtpa

2001 Trial production Plant

Chandrapur 2.0 mtpa

• World's second largest cement producer after China.

• Production capacity 151.2 Million Tones (MT).

• The top 20 cement companies account for almost 70% of the total cement production of the country.

• Total 129 plants, owned by 54 major companies across the nation.

Indian Cement Industry

Three types of processes – Wet, Semi-Dry and

Dry were used to produce cement.

Wet process consumed more energy than dry

process.

Dry process became popular, it reduced fuel

consumption from 330kg( in wet process) to

250kg of coal for a ton of cement.

Manufacturing Process

Power to plantVisit plant in JapanTransportation (Freight)Warehousing

Cost Efficiency

Leader in Indian cement industry Combination of strategiesInvestment in various plant at various state

Future Outlook

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