UltraTech capacity at 200 MT, largest outside China now

IN A MILESTONE that underscores the pace of consolidation and expansion in the cement sector, Aditya Birla Group’s UltraTech Cement on Friday crossed an installed capacity of 200 million tonne per annum (MTPA) in India, after commissioning three new grinding units.

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The additions, with a cumulative capacity of 8.7 MTPA, take its domestic capacity to 200.1 MTPA, placing the company as the world's largest cement producer outside China. Including overseas operations, UltraTech’s consolidated global capacity stands at 205.5 MTPA, with 5.4 MTPA spread across the UAE, Bahrain and Sri Lanka.

“Today, UltraTech’s cement capacity is almost twice the cement capacity of the United States and greater than the entire cement capacity of the European Union,” Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, said at the commissioning ceremony.