Ultratech Cement Ltd.

Ultratech Cement is reportedly set to establish a Rs 2,500-crore greenfield cement plant in Tamil Nadu. It has done with the public hearing for the project in May, as part of the environment impact assessment and management plan. This plant will have the capacity of 5.5-million-tonne-a-year with 4.5-mt clinker production, 75 MW captive power plant (with additional power from diesel generating sets of about 18 MW) and a waste heat recovery facility of about 15 MW.

This new plant will have two production lines of 2.25 million tonnes each. The total project area is about 263 hectares with a plant area of about 86 ha. Ultratech’s factory will add to the 36 million tonnes of cement production capacity in Tamil Nadu.