Ramco Cements

Ramco Cements Limited

Ramasamy Raja Nagar Plant, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu
Traded as	BSE: 500260 NSE: RAMCOCEM
Industry	Building material power generation
Founded	1961
Founder(s)	P A C Ramasamy Raja
Headquarters	Chennai , India
Area served	South and East India
Key people	Venketrama Raja, MD A. V. Dharmakrishnan, CEO
Products	Cement
Revenue	INR 51.462 billion (2018–19)
Website	www.ramcocements.in

The Ramco Cements Limited (formerly Madras Cements Limited) is a company of the Ramco Group, a business group based in Chennai, India. The company also produces ready mix concrete and dry mortar products and operates wind farms.

Operations

Cement Production

The main product of the company is Portland cement, manufactured in eight production facilities that includes Integrated Cement plants and Grinding units with a current total production capacity of 16.45 MTPA (out of which Satellite Grinding units capacity alone is 4 MTPA).

It manufactures and markets Portland cement, blast furnace slag cement, white cement and Pozzolana cement. The company has Integrated Cement plants at

1. Alathiyur (in Tamil Nadu),
2. Ariyalur (in Tamil Nadu),
3. Mathod (in Karnataka),
4. Jaggaiahpet (in Andhra Pradesh),
5. Virudhunagar (in Tamil Nadu)

and Grinding units at

1. Uthiramerur (in Tamil Nadu)
2. Valapady (in Tamil Nadu)
3. Kolaghat (in West Bengal)
4. Visakhapatnam (in Andhra Pradesh)

Wind Power Generation

Ramco Cements opened its first windfarm at Muppandal in 1993. In 1995, Ramco Cements installed 69 additional windmills at Poolavadi near Coimbatore. As of 2019, the total installed windmill capacity is with 165.785 MW with 235 individual units.

See also

• Ramco Systems
• Ramco Institute of Technology
• ParentCircle