India: Shree's Aurangabad plant begins commercial operations

Shree Cement has commissioned 2Mta grinding capacity at Aurangabad in Bihar and informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on 10 July that the plant was now in commercial operation. "...the company has commissioned a grinding unit of 2Mta capacity at Aurangabad in Bihar on 30 June 2014," the cement maker said in a press release to stock exchanges.

Shree Cement had 13.5Mta of cement capacity before the commissioning of the unit. It has embarked on expansions to take its total capacity to 25Mta by 2015, aimed at consolidating position further in the northern India market and gain a foothold in the east of the country.