Building & Construction Material

Nirma is planning an expansion of its integrated cement unit at Villages Nimbol and Sinla, dist. Pali, Rajasthan. The capacity of the cement plant is to be augmented from 2.28 MTPA to 6.14 MTPA, the clinker plant from 1.48 MTPA to 4.38 MTPA, CPP from 25 MW to 60 MW for CPP & WHRB from 4.7 MW to 15 MW. The estimated cost of the total project is Rs. 5,000 million. The project is waiting for environmental clearance. The company has also applied for environmental clearance for 2 nos. interlinked captive limestone mining projects (lease) to cater the additional requirement of limestone for proposed expansion (i) 1.5 MTPA Sinla Limestone mining lease with ML area 140.50 hectares (ii) 2.0 MTPA Sinla Limestone mining lease with ML area 100.7528 hectares. According to MoEF reports, the cement plant is based on dry process technology for cement manufacturing with pre-heating and pre-calciner technology. The type of cement being manufactured is Portland Pozzolona Cement (PPC) and Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). Coal/ petcoke/ lignite will be used as fuel in cement plant and in power plant. Total project area is 95.764 hectares (existing 70 hectares and additional 25.764 hectares) which is already under possession. Approximately 31.6 hectares i.e. (33% of the total project area) has been proposed to be developed under greenbelt. Additional power requirement of 34 MW for the expansion will be sourced from CPP, RSEB, WHRB and DG set. An implementation period of 13 months from the date of signing/ effectiveness of the main equipment supply contract is foreseen for this project. [Info as of: Nov. `16]

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