MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement will cross 200 million tonnes of capacity after commissioning three grinding units totaling 8.7 million tonnes on Friday, cementing Aditya Birla Group’s position as the world’s largest cement producer outside China, with capacity nearly double that of the US and exceeding the entire European Union.
This achievement represents a rapid rise: in 2019, UltraTech ranked third globally outside China, with a production capacity of 100 million tons.“This scale is unprecedented. No other company in any sector in India has ever reached this milestone in terms of capacity,” group president Kumar Mangalam Birla said. The new units include units in Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Patratu (Jharkhand) and Vizag (Andhra Pradesh). The company also has capabilities in the UAE, Bahrain and Sri Lanka.Birla reiterated that the company aims to increase capacity to 240 million tonnes per annum by the end of FY28, with an investment of Rs 16,000 crore. He added that nearly two-thirds of its sales come from rural India.