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India: Germany-based ThyssenKrupp has agreed to sell its 55% stake in ThyssenKrupp Industries India to local joint venture partners. VCCircle News has reported that the move is part of on-going strategic cost-saving measures. The supplier expects to complete the sale in mid-late 2024. As a result, its total global employees will drop by over 2300. Protos Engineering and Paharpur Cooling Towers will reportedly acquire the stake. The companies hold existing stakes of 16% and 11% respectively.

India: ThyssenKrupp Industries India has appointed Prashant Jamadar appointed as Senior General Manager – Marketing. He has worked for ThyssenKrupp Industries India since 2006 in a variety of marketing roles. Jamadar holds a qualification in mechanical engineering from the G M Choudhary Engineering Collage and a master’s of business administration (MBA) degree from the Indo-German Training Centre in Mumbai.

India: Shiva Cement plans to invest around US$200m towards a new integrated cement plant in Sundergarh district, Odisha. The 1.36Mt clinker unit will also include a 1Mt/yr grinding unit, an 8MW waste heat recovery (WHR) unit, 4Mt/yr crushing plants at its dolomite and limestone quarries, a connecting 10km belt conveyor and a dedicated railway siding with a 12km track to the main network.

ThyssenKrupp Industries India will supply a 4000t/day clinker production line for the project. Larsen & Toubro has been awarded the contract for civil, mechanical and refractory erection work. The unit is expected to create around 500 jobs directly and indirectly. Commissioning is scheduled to take place by March 2022.

Parth Jindal, the managing director of JSW Cement said, "The new clinker unit at Shiva Cement in Odisha will provide a strategic advantage to service the needs of our customers in the region and further strengthen JSW Cement's leadership position in the Green Cement category in India.”

The subsidiary of JSW Cement intends to use the new plant as a strategic hub to access markets in the east of the country. It is part of the group’s aim to achieve a production capacity of 25Mt/yr by 2025.