The production of cement from Reliance Cement Company Private Ltd, a subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (Reliance Infra), has begun from the first manufacturing unit at Butibori, Nagpur in Maharashtra.
The unit would essentially meet the needs of the market in Vidarbha, the company said in a communication to the stock exchanges.
RCC is building two cement plants with a total capacity of 10 mt in M.P. and Maharashtra with associated grinding plants. The strategy was to have clinker producing plants nearer to key raw material-limestone, and grinding units closer to the markets.
Sumit Banerjee, Vice-Chairman of RCC, explained that the company wanted to be counted among the top 5 cement producers in India in the next five years. Apart from the two projects each with a capacity of 5 million tonnes per annum, several other projects were under different stages of development.