JP Cement Corporation Ltd is set to undertake the expansion and upgrading of its plant at the industrial township of Shahabad in Chitapur state.

The plans include a switch from wet-process to dry-process technology and an increase in the production capacity from 0.5Mta to 6Mta with a 70MW captive power plant.

The company said that orders for dry-process technology machinery have already been placed and it is waiting the renewal of a mining licence.