ACC Kudithini cement plant was inaugurated by Ministry for Tourism and Infrastructure Development of Karnataka. Located 25 km from this new plant becomes the company’s 16th cement plant in its national network and fourth in Karnataka. The cement grinding plant has a capacity to produce 1.2 mt of Portland slag cement and the project involved an outlay of about Rs 370 crore. Clinker is supplied by ACC’s cement plants at Wadi. The plant has its own railhead and siding with unloading and handling facilities such as railway wagon and truck tipplers. This plant will cater to the north and north western part of Karnataka. The grinding system comprises state-of-the-art vertical roller mill (VRM) technology, with a grinding capacity of 180 tonne per hour. ACC Kudithini will supply cement in bulk tankers to large construction projects, concrete product makers and to ready mixed concrete and batching plants.