Orient Cement Ltd, part of the $1.6-billion diversified CK Birla Group, expects to get its “greenfield’ plant in Gulbarga, Karnataka, on steam by June 2015.
The cement major has already invested Rs 1,300 crore of the estimated Rs 1,900 crore for the plant, which has a capacity of producing 3 million/tonnes per annum. It will meet the demands of parts of Karnataka, Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh.