Dalmia Bharat to raise its cement capacity over 48 mt by 2024

01 Feb 2022 CW Team

Dalmia Bharat aims to increase its cement capacity to over 48 million tonnes (mt) by the end of 2024 from the present 35.9 MT by installing new plants and developing existing facilities, procurements, and debottlenecking of production with an investment of Rs 9,000 crore.

They have an ongoing project of 2.5 mt, greenfield of 3 mt, brownfield of 1.7 mt and development of about 5.3 mt. It will increase the capacity to 48.4 mt by March of FY24, as per Puneet Dalmia, managing director of Dalmia Bharat. Dalmia told the media that the firm has finalised land in Chennai and Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu to install two grinding units and is in an advanced stage of finalising land in Bihar for a new project.

For the December quarter of FY22, the firm recorded a consolidated net profit of Rs 103 crore, which was 44% lower year-on-year, on the back of slow demand and high-cost pressure. It was a challenging quarter. Yet, Dalmia anticipates the hit on profitability to be temporary and said demand is robust in India.

The company is additionally pumping in cost-efficiency technologies.They are making investments to decrease their cost structure.They are making investments to decrease power and heat consumption and new generation coolers and more.

The firm is additionally testing out electric vehicles, comprising electric trucks in Odisha, for transportation. If that works well, they will be funding Electric vehicles (EVs).The firm aims to handle its status of being net debt-free for the next few years.

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Also read: Dalmia Cement starts commercial production at its Murli Plant

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