Ramco Cements commissions 3rd line at Jayanthipuram

Team News Riveting

Mumbai, June 30

The Ramco Cements Ltd., the flagship company of the Ramco Group, had commissioned the third line of clinkering plant at Jayanthipuram in Andhra Pradesh.

“We are pleased to inform you that, on 28th June 2021 we have commissioned the Line III of our Jayanthipuram Plant, with a clinker manufacturing capacity of 1.50 Million Tonnes Per Annum,” the company said in a regulatory filing.

The development would power company’s plan to expand its production capacity to 20 million tonne per annum (MTPA) by the financial year 2021-22.

Currently, Ramco Cements have a production capacity of over 16 MTPA and the company planned to increase it to 20 MTPA with the completion of the third line of clinkering plant at Jayanthipuram in Andhra Pradesh and a new cement plant in Kurnool.

As per the earlier plan, Ramco Cements decided to expand clinkering capacity at Jayanthipuram from 3 MTPA to 4.5 MTPA before March 2021, set up a plant in Kurnool with a clinkering capacity of 2.25 MTPA and cement capacity of 1 MTPA, a thermal power plant and waste heat recovery plant (WHRP) before March 2021.

However, the COVID-19 induced pandemic and lockdown delayed the plan.

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