, the Aditya Birla Group’s flagship, has surpassed 200 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of installed cement manufacturing capacity in India.
The company commissioned three new grinding units today in Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Patratu (Jharkhand), and Vizag (Andhra Pradesh), adding a combined 8.7 MTPA.
This propels UltraTech’s India capacity to 200.1 MTPA and its global footprint — including operations in the UAE, Bahrain, and Sri Lanka — to 205.5 MTPA, making it the world’s largest cement producer outside China.
“This scale is unprecedented. No other company in any sector in India has ever reached this capacity milestone,” said Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla. “It places UltraTech as the largest cement company in the world, outside of China. Today, UltraTech’s cement capacity is almost twice the cement capacity of the United States and greater than the entire cement capacity of the European Union.”
Of the 200 million tonnes, about 110 million tonnes have been built through greenfield and brownfield expansions, and the remaining 90 million tonnes through a series of acquisitions over the years. “We started with a bang with the L&T cement acquisition and never looked back, as Jaypee, Binani, Century, Kesoram, and most recently India Cements joined the UltraTech fold,” he said.
The swift execution underscores UltraTech’s growth trajectory: it took 36 years to hit 100 MTPA in 2019, but just under seven more to double that.
These units strategically bolster supply chains in North India’s construction boom, Jharkhand’s industrial hub, and Andhra Pradesh’s urbanising coast.
UltraTech powers critical national projects, including one in three Indian homes, two of every five kilometres of NHAI concrete roads, and four of five kilometres of metro rail. Its cement features in icons like the New Parliament Building, Mumbai Coastal Road, Dwarka Expressway, Navi Mumbai International Airport, Sonamarg Tunnel, and Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail.
Managing Director KC Jhanwar credited organic expansions and acquisitions for the nationwide footprint.
With ₹16,000 crore in ongoing capex, the company eyes 240+ MTPA soon.