Orient Cement's Cement Capacity Addition

Orient Cement Commissions New Greenfieeld Integrated Cement Plant.

Orient Cement Ltd has commissioned, started commercial production and cement dispatches at its new greenfield integrated cement plant located at Chittapur, Gulbarga District, Karnataka with an installed cement capacity of 3.0 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).

With the commissioning of this new unit, the total installed capacity of Orient Cement Ltd. has increased to 8 MTPA from 5 MPTA. Orient Cement's other cement units include, Cement Plant unit at Devapur, Adilabad, Telangana and Split Cement Grinding unit at Jalgaon, Maharashtra.

Orient Cement is part of the CK Birla Group, a growing US$1.6 billion conglomerate that has interests in three industry clusters: technology and automotive, home and building, and healthcare and education.