A Panaromic view of Plant
Introduction
Century Cement is a division of Century Textiles and Industries Ltd, a flagship company of BK Birla Group. The company is well diversified having interest in cement, textiles, rayon, chemicals, pulp and paper.
Century Cement is situated at Baikunth(Tilda), Dist. Raipur in the State of Chhattisgarh. Baikunth is 35 Kms east of Raipur on Mumbai - Howrah (via Nagpur), South East Central Railway Main Line. The name 'Baikunth' was formed out of letter/s of adjacent villages in sequence i.e. 'Ba' of Bahesar, 'Kun' of Kundru and 'T' of Tandwa Village. The installed capacity of Century Cement is 2.10 Million TPA. Apart from this, company has two more cement plants namely Maihar Cement at Sarlanagar, Dist. Satna, in the State of Madhya Pradesh with an installed capacity of 3.80 Million TPA and Manikgarh Cement at Gadchandur, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra with an installed capacity of 1.90 Million TPA. The combined Capacity of all cement plants taken altogether is 7.80 Million TPA. Up gradation work for enhancing capacity to 8.5 MTPA is under implementation which is expected to be completed by Dec'2010.
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All cement plants are equipped with captive power plants, which not only ensure an uninterrupted power supply, but also help company substantially on power cost, as the own generated power is quite economical as compared to grid power.
The company sells its cement under the brand name - Birla Gold
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Further, company is expanding its cement manufacturing capacity by 4.0 MTPA by setting up a new 1.5 MTPA Cement Grinding unit at Sagardighi in Murshidabad District (West Bengal) and by installing a new clinker line of capacity of 2.50 MTPA and an equivalent cement grinding facility adjacent to the existing plant of Manikgarh Cement at Gadchandur, Dist. Chandrapur (Maharashtra).
With the up gradation & proposed expansion, the capacity will increase to 12.5 MTPA by end of calander year 2012.