1. Gujarat Ambuja
Cost Leader in Indian
Cement Industry

2.  Established as Ambuja Cements Private Ltd. In
1981 by Narotam Satyanarayan Sekhsaria.
 With support of GIIC , seksaria and his two
partners, suresh Neotia and Vinod Neotia, set up
ACPL.
 In 1983, company floated a public issue and its
name was changed to GACL.
 Its production started at a 0.7 million tons per
annum(mtpa)

3. Plants
Year Name of Plant City Capacity
1983 Ambuja Cements Ambuja Nagar, 0.7 mtpa
Gujarat
1993 GujAmbuja Ambuja Nagar 1.0 mtpa
Cements
1995 Ambuja Cements Suli , Himachal 1.5 mtpa
Himachal Unit Pradesh
1996 Guj Line – II Ambuja Nagar, 1.0 mtpa
Gujarat
2001 Trial production Chandrapur 2.0 mtpa
Plant

4. • World's second largest cement producer after China.
• Production capacity 151.2 Million Tones (MT).
• The top 20 cement companies account for almost
70% of the total cement production of the country.
• Total 129 plants, owned by 54 major companies
across the nation.

5.  Three types of processes – Wet, Semi-Dry and
Dry were used to produce cement.
 Wet process consumed more energy than dry
process.
 Dry process became popular, it reduced fuel
consumption from 330kg( in wet process) to
250kg of coal for a ton of cement.

6.  Power to plant
 Visit plant in Japan
 Transportation (Freight)
 Warehousing

7.  Leader in Indian cement industry
 Combination of strategies
 Investment in various plant at various state