India: My Home Industries plans to open a new cement grinding plant at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu in January 2017. The new plant is expected to expand the company’s market share in southern India, according to the New Indian Express newspaper. The cement producer has a production capacity of 8.4Mt/yr and the new unit will increase the total to 10Mt/yr.
“We are leaders in Andhra and Telangana. In Tamil Nadu we have about 7% market share and in Karnataka, it is about 5 – 6%. This plant would help strengthen our operations in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala,” said Samba Siva Rao, the executive director of My Home Industries. He added that at present cement is transported to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka from a plant in Kurnool.