MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement will cross 200 million tonnes of capacity after commissioning three grinding units totalling 8.7 million tonnes on Friday, cementing the Aditya Birla Group company’s position as the world’s largest cement producer outside China, with capacity nearly double that of the United States and exceeding the whole of the European Union. The milestone marks a rapid ascent: in 2019, UltraTech stood third globally outside China, with 100mn tonnes of capacity.“This scale is unprecedented. No other company in any sector in India has ever reached this capacity milestone,” group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said. The new units include units at Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Patratu (Jharkhand), and Vizag (Andhra Pradesh). The company also has capacities in the UAE, Bahrain, and Sri Lanka.Birla reiterated that the company is targeting an increase in capacity to 240 MTPA by the end of FY28, at an investment of Rs 16,000 crore. Nearly two-thirds of its sales come from rural India, he added.
