India cement news

Indian cement maker, J.K. Cement is planning to increase its installed capacity to around 18 million tpy over the next few years.

A Supreme Court ban on the use of petcoke in India’s National Capital Region looks set to raise cement prices.

India’s leading cement maker, UltraTech Cement, has reported a smaller-than-expected fall in net profits, as the company works to integrate the cement assets of Jaiprakash Associates.

ACC seems to have blown away the post-demonetisation blues that had hit the Indian cement industry, reporting an almost doubling of net profits in 3Q17.

China will drag down average cement consumption growth over the next five years, as the country continues to battle overcapacity, counterbalancing a rosier outlook elsewhere.

UltraTech’s Vikram cement plant was won a National Award for Excellence in Water Management 2017 from the Confederation of Indian Industry.

India’s northern and eastern regions are expected to drive demand for cement in the coming quarters.

Orient Cement will increase its capacity to over 12 million tpy this year, as it targets capacity of 15 million tpy in 2020.

India’s cement production was down in the first quarter of the current financial year, on weak demand from the real estate and housing sector.

FLSmidth is to deliver a new OK vertical cement mill to The India Cements Ltd, one of the leading cement producers in southern India.