Hydraulic attachments are the future of infra development

May 2018

An excavator can be used in a versatile way and can be termed as carrier. A single carrier can do multiple jobs with various attachments such as brea...

Tags: Excavator, Investment, P Royston, Epiroc Mining India, Construction, Mining Equipment, Bucket crushers, Combi cutters, Drum cutters, Demolition pulverisers, Bulk pulverisers, Plate compactors, Steel cutters, Birla Corporation

Birla Corp rides high on low petcoke price

January 2017

Birla Corporation lowered its fuel costs by 11 per cent through negotiated imported petcoke prices to post a 152 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 58...

Tags: Birla Corporation, Low petcoke price

Newsmakers 2016

December 2016

The year 2016 dawned with a sense of guarded anticipation - while much remained the same, some things were definitely changing, with metro projects...

Tags: Newsmakers, CW, Dr Raghuram Rajan, Reserve Bank of India, ECB guidelines, Urjit Patel, Sujoy Bose, Takema Sakamoto, JICA, IIFCL, PPP infrastructure financing projectsc, TRIL, InvIT, Sanjay G Ubale, Leena Nandan

Winners - Prism Cement

October 2016

Prism Cement is a central India-based cement manufacturer with two units (2 million tonne and 3.6 million tonne) at Satna in Madhya Pradesh. While th...

Tags: Prism Cement, India-based cement manufacturer, Hi-Tech, UltraTech, Birla Corporation, Central India

BIG BIDDER

September 2016

Harsh Lodha, Chairman, Birla Corp, has cracked the ´important transaction´ in the company´s history. The company has acquired Reliance Infrastructure...

Tags: Harsh Lodha, Important transaction, Birla Corp, Reliance Infrastructure Cement

Cementing Proposition

September 2016

A spate of mergers and acquisitions has marked the Indian cement industry in the past couple of years. News reports peg the volume of capacity that h...

Tags: Precast Construction, Cement, Lafarge, Holcim, Heidelberg Cement, Italcementi, UltraTech, Jaypee, Birla Corp, Reliance Cement, Power, Fuel Consumption, Anil Kumar Pillai, The Ramco Cements, RCPT

Five final contenders to buy Lafarge India

August 2016

Ajay Piramal Group, Nirma and Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Cement have emerged as the strongest contenders to acquire Lafarge´s entire India cement portfoli...

Tags: Ajay Piramal Group, Nirma, Sajjan Jindal, JSW Cement, Anhui Conch Cement Company, LafargeHolcim, Birla Corp

Rel Infra looks to divest toll road assets by Sept

June 2016

The Anil Ambani-led Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. is contemplating selling its 11 toll road assets to an overseas buyer for $1.5 billion. The company ...

Tags: Anil Ambani, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, Birla Corp, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Canadian fund