New cement plant coming up
ARIYALUR, OCTOBER 11, 2018 00:00 IST
It can produce one million tonnes of cement in a year
The Tamil Nadu Cements Corporation Limited, a wholly owned State government undertaking, has set up a new modern cement plant here at a cost of Rs. 750 crore.
It will be a second plant of the Arasu cement factory since commercial production was started in 1979. The new plant will have a production capacity of 3,000 tonnes a day. It can produce one million tonnes of cement in a year.
The erection work, which began in May 2016, has almost been completed. Fine-tuning of equipment set up at the plant site is on.
K. Balasubramaniam, Deputy Secretary, Industries, and Managing Director (In-Charge), Tamil Nadu Cements Corporation Limited, who inspected the progress of installation works, said that 95% of the work had been completed. Remaining work would be completed before the end of October. Testing and trial run would begin in November.
“The new plant will be a game changer on various aspects. The fully automated plant is designed to produce a million tonne of cement a year. It will start commercial production in January or February,” he said.
The new plant had come up on 52 acres of land. The plant would have a lime stone crusher and raw mill. He said that the existing plant would continue to function. It had a production capacity of 5 lakh tonnes per annum. With the new plant, the total production capacity of Arasu cement factory in Ariyalur would go up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum. The best limestone deposit would enable the factory to produce high quality cement of various grades for meeting the requirements from Government departments and public.
ARIYALUR, OCTOBER 11, 2018 00:00 IST
It can produce one million tonnes of cement in a year
The Tamil Nadu Cements Corporation Limited, a wholly owned State government undertaking, has set up a new modern cement plant here at a cost of Rs. 750 crore.
It will be a second plant of the Arasu cement factory since commercial production was started in 1979. The new plant will have a production capacity of 3,000 tonnes a day. It can produce one million tonnes of cement in a year.
The erection work, which began in May 2016, has almost been completed. Fine-tuning of equipment set up at the plant site is on.
K. Balasubramaniam, Deputy Secretary, Industries, and Managing Director (In-Charge), Tamil Nadu Cements Corporation Limited, who inspected the progress of installation works, said that 95% of the work had been completed. Remaining work would be completed before the end of October. Testing and trial run would begin in November.
“The new plant will be a game changer on various aspects. The fully automated plant is designed to produce a million tonne of cement a year. It will start commercial production in January or February,” he said.
The new plant had come up on 52 acres of land. The plant would have a lime stone crusher and raw mill. He said that the existing plant would continue to function. It had a production capacity of 5 lakh tonnes per annum. With the new plant, the total production capacity of Arasu cement factory in Ariyalur would go up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum. The best limestone deposit would enable the factory to produce high quality cement of various grades for meeting the requirements from Government departments and public.
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