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A revolution in concrete machinery production

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14 years ago

April 30, 2012

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Consolidating its position as a leading manufacturer of concrete machinery equipment, Sany Group looks forward to being a role model in the heavy machinery domain.The Sany Group finds its origins in Lianyuan Welding Material Ltd, a company found in 1986. The company was officially renamed Sany Group Co Ltd in 1991 and its headquarters were officially moved to Changsha. Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd was formed as a sunsidiary of the Sany Group in 1994 and went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on July 3, 2003. Today, the company has emerged as a world leader in concrete pumping technology. Since its humble start, the company has grown into a global corporation with 5 industrial parks in China, 4 R&D manufacturing bases in the USA, Germany, India and Brazil and 21 sales companies around the world. The company employs over 70,000 employees in more than 150 countries. The company’s export revenues today have exceeded $1 billion.Records par excellenceThe Sany Group ranks 6th among the top 50 global construction machinery manufacturers In 2007 and 2009, Sany Heavy Industry’s self-developed 66m and 72m concrete pump trucks created Guinness World Records twice as the concrete pump with the longest boom. Sany Heavy Industry rolled out its 86m concrete pump truck on September 19th, 2011 off the production line. Sany has also achieved the record of being listed among the world’s top 500 companies in China’s construction industry. Towards the mid of last year, the British newspaper Financial Times released the 2011 list of the world’s 500 most valuable companies (FT Global 500) ranked by market capitalization. Sany Heavy Industry was put on the list of FT Global 500 for the first time, ranked 431st, with a market cap of 21.584 billion US dollars.Research & DevelopmentThe Sany Group re-invests 5-7 percent of its sales revenue into its R&D initiatives. This has made it possible for the company to expand its product lines into concrete, road, hoisting, pile driving, excavating machineries and wind energy products. The company has its own General Research Institute, which is the primary R&D department for technical research and technical management. The institute focuses on research and development of frontier technologies and future-oriented products, aiming to build up a core competitive edge. The General Research Institute has lent world-class quality to Sany products by providing outcomes of researches on fundamental technology through improvement and upgradation of the existing technologies.The company also operates the Central R&D Institute which owns 8 sub departments, including Director’s Office, Research Management Department, Technical Standardization Department, IPR Department, PDM Management Department, Experiment & Testing Center, Industrial Design Center, and Human Resources Department, and it is in charge of the management of Post-doctoral Research Station and Academician & Expert Workstation. The institute is also responsible for developing technology applicable to Sany all products, conducting forefront technical research on new products and setting standards; researching vibration, impact, noise, hydraulic technology, power matching and energy saving, new materials and control systems, creating innovative technologies and conceptive products and building up a network-based special and generalized platform for experiments and tests so as to share general experiment and test results.VenturesAcquisition of Putzmeister : A major achievement of Sany Group has been to purchase Putzmeister of Germany, the world’s leading concrete machinery company. The purchase was completed by Sany alongwith the Citics Private Equity Funds Management. A 90 percent stake in the venture is held by Sany while the rest is held by Citics. The deal was approved by the Chinese and German governments. The global headquarters for Sany’s construction machinery business will be located at Aichtal, Germany where Putzmeister’s offices are located, except for the company’s headquarters in China. A dual brand strategy approach will be adopted by Sany in the future wherein Sany will be in charge of the market at home while the overseas market will be taken care of by Putzmeister. Commenting on the acquisition, Richard Deng, Managing director, Sany Heavy Industry stated, "the acquisition is a strategic move made by Sany to upgrade the concrete machinery industry to a new high. This will ensure that we are not competitors struggling against each other for customers and market share."Joint venture between Sany and Palfinger : Sany Heavy Industry Co and Palfinger, the world’s biggest manufacturer of truck-mounted cranes will be investing $143 million in a joint venture for the manufacture of sale of mobile cranes. To be named Sany-Palfinger SPV Equipment Ltd Co, the new venture will be based in Changsha in the Hunan province of central China. The China based venture will manufacture and sell Palfinger knuckle boom cranes in China. Around $ 5.4 million will be invested by both the companies for setting up a sales unit in Salzburg in Austria, where Palfinger is headquartered. The Salzburg based venture will be named Palfinger-Sany Mobile Crane International Sales Co. Ltd and will distribute wheeled mobile cranes produced by Sany in Europe, America and the Commonwealth of Independent States like Russia. The China venture is set to be operational by 2013 while the sales unit in Salzburg is expected to start operations by year-end.Sany in IndiaSany Heavy Industry India has a state of the art manufacturing facility in Chakan near Pune in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra. It has been set up on an area of 330,000 sq feet and a built up area of 37,000 sq meters. The facility comprises of a comprehensive manufacturing set-up, a product design and customization center sales, renting, service, storage, logistics and a fully fledged R&D centre. The company’s Indian unit manufactures trailer-mounted concrete pump, truck-mounted concrete pump, concrete mixer truck, concrete batching plant and motor grader and cranes. The Indian plant is the company’s second manufacturing facility in Asia. The Indian facility has been designed to create and develop new construction machinery technologies and customize them for suiting specific Indian market conditions. The company intends to supply equipments, components, design and R&D to the Indian marketplace and additional Asian African and Middle Eastern markets.Sany Heavy Industry India announced inauguration of its first integrated crawler crane production line at Chakan. The plant is set to cater to India’s burgeoning market for heavy construction equipment and will substitute the import of crawler cranes from China.Sany made a foray in India in 2003 and since then has been involved in supplying construction machinery to large scale infrastructure projects in India which comprise of Imperial Twin Towers, Adani power plant, Mumbai International Airport expansion, Brahmaputra rail bridge project, Delhi Metro project, Indira Gandhi International airport project.The potential for Sany in the Indian heavy construction machinery domain can be gauged from the fact that the Indian earthmoving and construction equipment industry’s revenue between 2004 and 2007 grew at 40 percent each year. The figure touched $2.3 billion in 2007. It is expected to reach USD 12-13 billion by 2015.After-sales supportSany India has established 6 regional offices and 18 service stations, recruited expert team of more than 40 persons including 11 Chinese experts for crawler crane. Sany has designed and acquired several service vans equipped with testing, and repairing apparatus. Sany has warehouses in different locations like Mumbai (main warehouse), Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Panvel, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, etc, where all the spare parts are stored which makes it easy and less time consuming for parts supply. Big warehouses in all the major cities have stock of 7000 types of spares worth over 30 crores. To ensure least down time, Sany provides 24 x 7 service and parts support to its customer in India.Under the guideline of "swift and responsible", Sany periodically undertakes value-added activities, such as free machine health check-up and technical up gradation, and, also provides training to all levels of people including customer operators and site supervisors. The whole system ensures that their machines have least downtime & provide maximum reliable performance.AwardsIn June 2010, Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd was awarded as China’s best service supplier by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, becoming the only enterprise that had got the prize in China’s engineering machinery industry. The technical and innovation platform of Sany Heavy Industry won the "National Science and Technology Advancement Second Prize" of 2010. Sany is the first company from the engineering machinery industry in China to win this award. So far, only 21 companies have won this award.The Sany SY2000C Excavator, SY5382THB46 truck mounted concrete pump, the SCC 10000 crawler crane and SR360 rotary drilling rig were selected for the annual China Construction Machine’s top 50 in 2008.Sany Group has also made it to China’s top 500 worldwide brands list "Heavy Industries Global Brands"2008. This list was selected by the General Assembly world-renowned brand, World Brand Organization, The United States, China General Chamber of Commerce, Trade and Investment and the Universal City TV Stations’ Research Center of World Enterprises. The Beijing International Construction Machinery Expo Committee granted a Principal award of quality appearance to Sany’s SANYSY215C-9 crawler excavator at the tenth Construction Machinery Frame & Quality Appearance Competition. A recognition award was also given to the SANYSR250 hydraulic rotary rig. The sixth annual Mondale World Management Achievement award was given to Sany Group Chairman Liang Wengen for the second time in 2009. Sany also made the list of the top 50 globally competitive Chinese companies of 2009 which was released by entrepreneur magazine and Roland Berger Strategy consultants.CSR initiativesThe company has always believed in serving the community in which it exists and a commitment to making maximum contribution to the society. The company regularly undertakes activities like blood donation camps, tree planting and donating study materials to underprivileged school children. Sany also has planned to construct a temple for the village near the manufacturing facility and donated computer to schools in rural locations.

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30-Day Traffic Diversion In Place For CC Road Works In Madhapur

Diversions in place from May 16 for cement concrete road works

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1 day ago

May 22, 2026

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The Cyberabad Traffic Police issued a traffic advisory as road works begin for the laying of a cement concrete (CC) road from Jaya Shankar Statue to RRR Restaurant at Parvathnagar in Madhapur limits. The advisory indicated that traffic diversions will be in place for 30 days from May 16 to ensure the smooth flow of vehicles and to minimise congestion on the affected stretch. The measure aims to balance uninterrupted construction activity with the movement needs of commuters.

Traffic moving from Toddy Compound towards Parvathnagar village will be diverted at Parvathnagar junction towards Sunnam Cheruvu and the 100 feet road. Local motorists and public transport operators have been advised to follow the diversionary route as directed by traffic personnel on duty. Alternate routes and signage have been planned to mitigate delays and to manage peak hour congestion.

Police officials said the diversion had been planned to facilitate uninterrupted road works while maintaining traffic movement in the area. Commuters were urged to plan their travel accordingly and to cooperate with traffic staff managing the stretch. Authorities indicated that enforcement of diversions would be active and that violations could attract penalties.

The 30 day schedule is intended to allow contractors to complete the laying and curing phases with minimal interruption to vehicular flow. Residents and businesses in adjacent localities have been advised to factor the diversion into deliveries and travel plans. The traffic police promised continuous monitoring of the works and the operational diversions and emphasised that temporary inconvenience was necessary for longer term improvement of the road network. Traffic personnel will be stationed at key junctions and additional signage and temporary markings will be displayed to guide motorists and pedestrians through the revised alignments while public transport services will follow the diversion where feasible and operators have been asked to adjust timetables to minimise disruption.

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HeidelbergCement India Receives Consent For Khandwa Grinding Unit

Consent granted by Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board

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2 days ago

May 21, 2026

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HeidelbergCement India (HeidelbergCement India) has received regulatory consent to establish a cement blending and grinding unit at Village Dongaliya, Tehsil Punasa, District Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. The consent was granted by the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and is dated 17 May 2026. The company disclosed the development in a filing made under Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.

The project plan envisages procurement of long term availability of fly ash and the allotment of land on lease for setting up the unit. The proposed facility is described as a blending and grinding installation which will process cementitious materials sourced from nearby operations and suppliers. Company filings state the measures required to secure raw material logistics and statutory compliance before commencing construction.

The addition of a grinding unit in Khandwa is intended to strengthen regional supply and improve logistical efficiency by reducing haulage distances for finished product. The unit is expected to complement existing capacities in central India and to offer flexibility in product mix through blending operations. The reliance on fly ash as a supplementary cementitious material will necessitate long term supply agreements with thermal power producers and coordination with waste utilisation policies.

The disclosure to the regulator and to the stock exchanges follows standard corporate governance practice and aims to keep investors apprised of capital expenditure initiatives. The company indicated that subsequent permits and clearances would be sought in accordance with applicable environmental and land use rules. The project is presented as part of HeidelbergCement India’s broader strategy to optimise capacity distribution and to respond to regional demand dynamics.

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PROMECON introduces infrared-based tertiary air measurement system for cement kilns

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3 days ago

May 20, 2026

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The new solution promisescontinuous, real-time tertiary air flow measurement in cement plant operations.

PROMECON GmbH has launched the McON IR Compact, an infrared-based measuring system designed to deliver continuous, real-time tertiary air flow measurement in cement plant operations. The system addresses the longstanding process control challenge of accurate tertiary air monitoring under extreme kiln conditions. It uses patented infrared time-of-flight measurement technology that operates without calibration or maintenance intervention.

Precise tertiary air measurement is a critical requirement for stable rotary kiln operation. The McON IR Compact is engineered to function reliably at temperatures up to 1,200°C and in the presence of abrasive clinker dust. Its vector-based digital measurement architecture ensures that readings remain unaffected by swirl, dust deposits or drift. Due to these conditions conventional measurement systems in pyroprocess environments are often compromised.

The system is fully non-intrusive and requires no K-factors, recalibration or periodic readjustment, enabling years of uninterrupted operation. This design directly supports plant availability and reduces the maintenance overhead typically associated with process instrumentation in high-temperature zones.

PROMECON has deployed the McON IR Compact at multiple cement facilities, including Warta Cement in Poland. Plant operators report that the system has aided in identifying blockages, optimising purging cycles for gas burners, and supplying accurate flow data for AI-based process optimisation programmes. The practical outcomes include more stable kiln operation, improved process control, and earlier detection of process disturbances.

On the energy side, real-time tertiary air data enables reduction in induced draft fan load and helps flatten process oscillations across the pyroprocess. This translates to lower fuel and energy consumption, fewer unplanned shutdowns, and a measurable reduction in NOx peaks. This directly reflects on the downstream cost implications for plants operating SCR or SNCR systems for emissions compliance.