Ramco Cements
| Private Sector | |
| Traded as |
BSE: 500260 NSE: RAMCEM |
| Industry |
Building material power generation |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Founder | P A C Ramasamy Raja |
| Headquarters | Chennai, India |
Key people |
Venkatarama Raju, MD A. V. Dharmakrishnan, CEO |
| Products | Cement |
| Revenue |
 US$3.7 billion (2014–15)[1] |
| Slogan | Engineered for concrete |
| Website | www.ramcocements.in |
Ramco Cements Limited (formerly Madras Cements Ltd) is the flagship company of the Ramco Group, a business group based in Chennai, South India. It is the fifth largest cement producer in India. The company also produces ready mix concrete and dry mortar products and operates wind farms.
It manufactures and markets Portland cement, blast furnace slag cement, white cement and Pozzolana cement. The company has production facilities at Alathiyur, Chengalpet, Kolaghat, Medavakkam, Sriperumpudur, Vijayawada, Virudhunagar and Vizag in India.
Ramco opened its first windfarm at at Muppandal in 1993. In 1995, Ramco Cements installed 69 additional windmills at Poolavadi near Coimbatore. As of 2015, the total installed windmill capacity is with 159.185 MW with 229 individual units.
References
- ↑ "BSE Plus". BSE. Retrieved 2015-10-09.