India’s cement production capacities under pressure

Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com

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

Source/Quelle: India Planning Commission

5 Expenditure on infrastructure; 12^th 5-year plan

Source/Quelle: India Planning Commission

Source/Quelle: ACC Limited

6 Cement consumption forecast 2015

Source/Quelle: ACC Limited

Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com

7 Development of cement production capacity

Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com

Source/Quelle: ACC Limited

8 12 500 t/d Wadi clinker production line

Source/Quelle: ACC Limited

Source/Quelle: Holcim

9 Ambuja Cement’s Nalagarh grinding plant

Source/Quelle: Holcim

Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com

10 Development of capacity utilization

Source/Quelle: CEMfocus.com

Source/Quelle: KHD

11 Ultratech’s Tadpatri cement plant

Source/Quelle: KHD

12 Ultratech’s Aditya II cement plant

Source/Quelle: KHD

Source/Quelle: FLSmidth

13 ACC’s Wadi cement plant

Source/Quelle: FLSmidth

Source/Quelle: Polysius

14 Ambuja Cement’s Rauri cement plant

Source/Quelle: Polysius

Source/Quelle: KHD

15 Jaypee Cement’s Baga cement plant

Source/Quelle: KHD

16 Shree Cement’s Ras cement plant

Source/Quelle: KHD

Source/Quelle: Dalmia Cement

17 Dalmia Cement’s Puram cement plant

Source/Quelle: Dalmia Cement

Source/Quelle: FLSmidth

18 Zuari Cement’s Yerraguntla cement plant

Source/Quelle: FLSmidth

Source/Quelle: Jaypee Group

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...