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JK Cement targets Rs 2,000 cr turnover

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JK Cement Ltd, one of the leading cement manufacturers in the country, has set a turnover target of around Rs 2,000 crore for the current financial year. This would be a growth of 17.64 per cent over Rs 1,700 crore which the company had achieved in 2009-10. Addressing media persons, MP Rawal, President, JK Cement Ltd, said, "We achieved a turnover of Rs 1,700 crore in 2009-10 and hope to close the current fiscal with a turnover of Rs 2,000 crore. The growth in turnover will come on the back of the company’s new greenfield cement plant which has been set up at Muddapur village in Karnataka which has a capacity of 3 million tonne per annum (mtpa)."The company has three cement manufacturing units in Rajasthan besides the Karnataka plant. The combined capacity of these plants is 7.5 mtpa. Apart from catering to the domestic demand, JK Cement is exporting 60,000-70,000 tonne of white cement to African countries, Gulf nations like Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman and also to countries in the Indian sub-continent and South-East Asia like Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines.

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Cement industry to gain from new infrastructure spending

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As per a news report, Karan Adani, ACC Chair, has said that he expects the cement industry to benefit from the an anticipated US$2.2tn in new public infrastructure spending between 2025 and 2030. In a statement he said that ACC has crossed the 100Mt/yr cement capacity milestone in April 2025, propelling the company to get closer to its ambitious 140Mt/yr target by the 2028 financial year. The company’s capacity corresponds to 15 per cent of an all-India installed capacity of 686Mt/yr.

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AI boom drives demand, says ACA

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The American Cement Association projects a nearly 1Mt annual increase in US cement demand over the next three years, driven by the surge in AI data centres. Consumption by data centres is expected to grow from 247,000 tonnes in 2025 to 860,000 tonnes by 2027. With over 5,400 AI data centres currently operating and numbers forecast to exceed 6,000 by 2027, the association cautions that regulatory hurdles and labour shortages may impact the industry’s ability to meet demand.

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GoldCrest Cement to build plant in India

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GoldCrest Cement will build a greenfield integrated plant with a 3.5Mt/yr clinker capacity and 4.5Mt/yr cement capacity. GoldCrest Cement appointed Humboldt Wedag India as engineering, procurement and construction contractor in March 2025 and targets completion by March 2027. It has signed a 40-year supply agreement with Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation for 150Mt of limestone from its upcoming Lakhpat Punrajpur mine in Gujarat.

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