Ambuja Cements Dhulagori Cement Plant

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Ambuja Cements Dhulagori Cement Plant is a grinding cement plant operating in Dhulagori, West Bengal, India.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the cement plant in Dhulagori, West Bengal, India:

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Coordinates (WGS 84): 22.569254, 88.194228 (exact)

Background

Ambuja Cement Sankrail Grinding unit was commissioned in the year 2001 with a grinding capacity of 1.2 million tonne per annum (mtpa). This included 2 ball mills of capacity 92 tonnes per hour (tph), 2 packers of capacity 180 tph, and a manual wagon loading system. The plant capacity was increased to 1.5 mtpa in the year 2010 and to 2.4 mtpa by 2016 with the installation of Thyssenkrupp Roller pressure of capacity 140 tph in Cement mill 1 increasing the capacity to 235 tph in combo grinding, 2 additional Packers of capacity 240 tph mechanised cement rake loading system.

The company has proposed further expansion of the plant capacity from 2.4 mtpa to 4 mtpa in 2022. The project is expected to get commissioned by the end of FY2026. As of May 2024, 40% of the civil work for the project was completed.

Ownership Tree

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Cement Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant type	Plant status	Start date
grinding	operating	2001

Table 2: Ownership Details

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Parent company	Parent company GEM ID	Owner name	Owner company GEM ID
Ambuja Cements Ltd [100.0%]	E100001000639 [100.0%]	Ambuja Cements Ltd [100.0%]	E100001000639 [100.0%]

Table 3: Capacities (million metric tonnes per annum)

Cement capacity	Clinker capacity
4.80	–

Table 4: Cement Production (million metric tonnes per annum)

Primary cement color	Primary cement type	Clinker substitution rate	2024 -2025 Cement production
grey	blended	unknown	unknown

Table 5: Clinker Production

Clinker production method	Number of operating kilns (accuracy)	Number of developing kilns (accuracy)	Kiln technology - preheater	Kiln technology - precalciner	Kiln technology - waste heat recovery
–	–	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown

Table 6: Green Cement Technology

CCS/CCUS	Alternative fuel	Clay calcination
–	–	unknown

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