ACC, the cement and building material company of the Adani Group, has commenced commercial production of clinker at its Ametha integrated cement plant in Katni district, Madhya Pradesh.
The facility has a clinker capacity of 3.3 MTPA and 1 MTPA cement capacity. It will enhance the company’s overall portfolio to 37 MTPA. The plant is ESG compliant with 16.3 MW of WHRS capacity and up to 15% of AFR potential.
Ajay Kapur, chief executive officer, Ambuja Cements & ACC during the earnings call said, “The company plans to reach cement production capacity of 140 million tons by FY28. We will add around 40 million tons of new clinker capacity, thereby implying around 10 new clinker lines.”
Equipment orders for another two more lines are already placed. This includes 4-million-ton facility at Bhatapara and another 4 million facility at Maratha in Chandrapur. Each of these lines will have 42 megawatts of wasted recovery and provision for utilizing around 50% alternate fuels. These two facilities are expected to be commissioned within 24 months.
For doubling the capacity of grinding facilities to 140 by FY28, the company is targeting 35 brand units against this target. It have already announced six new facilities with the capacity of 14 million tons. Of these, six facilities, three units are mapped to the upcoming clinker facility at Bhatapara, these includes one each at Sankrail, Kharagpur and Farakka.
Another three units are mapped to Chandrapur clinker facility, these include one unit each at Jalgaon, Amravati and Pune. Besides, a facility of one million tons capacity is proposed at Bhatinda grinding unit at Punjab and one new one-million-ton unit will be commissioned at Ametha in quarter two FY24. All together the company will take the total grinding capacity to around 83 million tons per annum.
