By Team Homes | Tuesday, 05 December 2023

Ambuja Cements acquires the control of Sanghi Industries

ACL (Ambuja Cements) is joining hands with Sanghi Industries (SIL).

With the attainment of holding Sanghi Industries, ACL seizes a controlling stake of 54.51 percent in Sanghi Industries. Now the size of the company is valued at Rs. 5,185 crore.

Sanghipuram manufacturing unit of SIL in Kutch district of Gujarat, extends over 2,700 hectares has a clinker production capacity of 6.6 million tpa, a cement grinding unit of 6.1 MTPA, and a 13 MW captive power plant is India’s largest single-location cement and clinker unit by capacity. It possesses a billion-ton high quality surface mining limestone assets.

Ambuja Cements invests in escalating the obtainable captive Sanghipuram port to hold larger vessels, and the company will contribute towards developing infrastructure by facilitating the increasing requirements for cement across the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala at a competitive prices. This is predicted to be bespoke in the upcoming 30 months. This planned acquirement will be funded completely through internal additions.

Moreover, the venture is gazing to gather the benefits of low-cost de-bottlenecking, rising the clinker capacity by 0.5 MTPA and cement capacity by 1.5 MTPA. The unit also offers prospective for green power generation that reaches up to 45 percentwith an additional 12 MW WHRS (Waste Heat Recovery System) and solar/wind power 30 MW.

In addition, the rewards of utilizing thelignite available nearby and araise in AFR consumption up to 20 percent places the Sanghipuram as the leading single-location clinker complex and largest among the lowest-cost manufacturers.

By means of this, Ambuja Cements is well-known to accelerate its sole coastal strategy that aims to boost the ability of cement to 15 MTPA along the West Coastal states of India.