Nagpur, Oct 10 (PTI) Ambuja Cements Ltd has taken a series of innovative initiatives to optimise production of cement at Unit Maratha at Gadchandur in neighbouring Chandrapur district and the production has gone up by 15 per cent, a top company official said. "The initiatives include 'debottlenecking' the production process increasing grinding efficiencies, raw mill optimisation and implementing measures to achieve higher blending rations," Business Head of West-South of Ambuja Cement, Ajay Kapur, told reporters here. The company has invested Rs 110 crore to implement these measures and to achieve rise of 15 per cent production, he said. Unit Maratha is the most advanced integrated cement plant which started commercial production in June 2002, Kapur said adding all the system at the plant have come from Krupp Polysius, Germany. The market share has been 19 per cent and the demand for cement this year has been growing eight per cent. Kapur said the company produced 15.15 million tonnes of cement from January to September this year, thereby showing an increase of 7.5 per cent. Its dispatches for the year have been 15.13 million tonnes, a 7.4 per cent increase over 14.09 million tonnes.
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