Maihar Cement - Introduction

All Cement plants are equipped with captive power plants, which is not only ensure an uninterrupted power supply, but also help company substantially on power cost, as the own generated power is quite economical as compared to grid power.

The company sells its cement under its premium brand name - BIRLA GOLD. Maihar Cemetnt is pioneer in producing Blended Cement i.e. Portland Pozzolana Cement. The motivation for the production of Blended cement has been primarily with the aim of preserving limestone reserves and environment.

Introduction

Maihar Cement is a division of Century Textiles and Industries Ltd, a flagship company of BK Birla Group. The company is well diversified having interest in cement, textiles, rayon, chemicals, pulp and paper.

Maihar Cement is situated at Sarlanagar (Maihar) Dist. Satna in the State of Madhya Pradesh with an installed capacity of 3.80 Million TPA. Maihar is 45 Kms South - East of Satna on Howrah - Mumbai Central Railway Main Line. Maihar is well known for Sharda Devi Temple and Maihar Gharana Music whose proponent was renowned Musician padma Vibhushan Baba Allaudin Khan.

Apart from this, company has two more cement plants namely Century Cement at Baikunth, Dist. Raipur in the State of Chhattisgarh with an installed capacity of 2.10 Million TPA and Manikgarh Cement at Gadchandur, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra with an installed capacity of 1.90 Million TPA. At present the cement manufacturing capacity of all cement plants taken ltogether is 7.8 MTPA. Up gradation work for enhancing capacity to 8.5 MTPA is under implementation which is expected to be completed by Dec'2010.

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Further, company is expanding its cement manufacturing capacity by 4.0 MTPA by setting up a new 1.5 MTPA Cement Grinding unit at Sagardighi in Murshidabad District (West Bengal) and by installing a new clinker line of capacity of 2.50 MTPA and an equivalent cement grinding facility adjacent to the existing plant of Manikgarh Cement at Gadchandur, Dist. Chandrapur (Maharashtra).

With the up gradation & proposed expansion, the capacity will increase to 12.5 MTPA by end of calander year 2012.