HeidelbergCement India Ltd (HEIDELBERG)

HeidelbergCement India (formerly known as Mysore Cements Limited - MCL) is a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement Group - a leading supplier of building materials worldwide. MCL, incorporated in 1958, started out with an installed capacity of 1 lac ton of cement at Ammasandra plant in Karnataka. Later, an expansion doubled the output to 2 lac tpa in 1966. In 1983, a 5 lac tpa greenfield cement plant was commissioned in Damoh Madhya Pradesh. During 1990-2000, the company entered into several joint ventures for production and expansion. These include a Rs. 600 crore 1.5 MTPA cement plant in Gulbarga, an electromechanical project in MP and Narsingarh, and teamed up with Nesher Israel in 1999. In 2006, they amagamated with HeidelbergCement company, and changed their name to HeidelbergCement India in 2009. Furthermore, they created a new brand called Mycem Power and made a slump sale of their Raigad unit to JSW Steel in 2014, which resulted in a net gain of Rs 603.1 mn. They also modernised Ammasandra and Damoh units with investments of Rs. 3600 and Rs. 8000 lakhs, respectively. In addition to this, they added a 12 MW Waste Heat Recovery-based power generation plant for clinkerisation in Narsingarh, and a 5.5 MW Solar Power Plant in the mining area at Damoh. Moreover, their cement grinding capacity increased to 6.26 MTPA owing to debottlenecking. Finally, 66524, 60693, 73655 MW of power were generated from waste heat recovery power plant in Narsingarh for FY 2019, 2020, 2021, respectively.

Share Price: ₹233.15 per share as on 24 Jul, 2024 04:01 PM
Market Capitalisation: ₹5,117.38Cr as of today
Listing date: 22 Dec, 1994
Chairperson Name: Ramakrishnan Ramamurthy