Ramco Cements


The Ramco Cements Limited is a company of the Ramco Group, a business group based in Chennai, India. The company also produces ready mix concrete and dry mortar products and operates wind farms.

Operations

Cement Production

The main product of the company is Portland cement, manufactured in eight production facilities that includes Integrated Cement plants and Grinding units with a current total production capacity of 16.45 MTPA.
It manufactures and markets Portland cement, blast furnace slag cement, white cement and Pozzolana cement. The company has Integrated Cement plants at
  1. Alathiyur,
  2. Ariyalur,
  3. Mathod,
  4. Jaggaiahpet,
  5. Virudhunagar
and Grinding units at
  1. Uthiramerur
  2. Valapady
  3. Kolaghat
  4. Visakhapatnam

    Wind Power Generation

Ramco Cements opened its first windfarm at Muppandal in 1993. In 1995, Ramco Cements installed 69 additional windmills at Poolavadi near Coimbatore. As of 2019, the total installed windmill capacity is with 165.785 MW with 235 individual units.

Controversies

Cartel

has accused Ramco cements of Cartelisation with other cement firms in Cement Manufacturers Association in India. It has slapped fine of INR 259 crores on Ramco cements for price fixing