{"content":[{"text":"Walchandnagar Industries - Commissioned State of the Art Cement Grinding \n Terminal for ZUARI CEMENT (ITALCEMENTI GROUP) in India.","bbox":{"left":0.120392,"top":0.040185,"width":0.7767329999999999,"height":0.054159}},{"text":"by Mr. S. Sundaram (Sr. General Manager-Zuari Cement - Italcementi Group) \n Mr. P.C.Bhagwat (Head- Cement Business-Walchandnagar Industries, India)","bbox":{"left":0.097647,"top":0.128383,"width":0.697638,"height":0.04305300000000001}},{"text":"Introduction:","bbox":{"left":0.097647,"top":0.185337,"width":0.13457000000000002,"height":0.026279999999999998}},{"text":"Italcementi Group entered the Indian market in January 2001, through the acquisition of \n Yerraguntla cement plant, located in the southern part of Andhra Pradesh State. This \n investment was initially made through a 50/50 joint-venture with the KK Birla Group; then, in \n May 2006, Italcementi Group acquired the full control of the company Zuari Cement. Later in \n January 2002, Zuari Cement took over another company Shree Vishnu Cement Limited in \n South India. \n ITALCEMENTI is the fifth largest cement producer in the world and the biggest in the \n Mediterranean region. \n Further ITALCEMENTI has strengthened its presence in India with a strong industrial \n investment plan by setting up second line in Yerraguntla and one clinker grinding terminal in \n Chennai. \n In August 2006, ITALCEMENTI has entrusted Walchandnagar Industries Ltd (WIL) by awarding \n the contract on EP basis for setting up 120 tph clinker grinding unit at Chennai, a capital city \n of Tamilnadu state in Southern part of India. \n The contract involves design & engineering, manufacturing, supply, supervision to erection & \n commissioning of clinker grinding unit. \n The project has successfully commissioned in end 2011 with the WIL’s long term & sustained \n commitment along with ITALCEMENTI’s consistent efforts towards completion of the project. \n With the commissioning of this project, WIL has achieved benchmark in the cement industry \n with their very efficient and reliable ball mill technology, which is very proven and well \n established in various cement plants across India and abroad.","bbox":{"left":0.097647,"top":0.239815,"width":0.82261,"height":0.42815500000000006}},{"text":"Major Challenges in the Project:","bbox":{"left":0.097647,"top":0.706565,"width":0.285441,"height":0.022750000000000048}},{"text":"The project has slowdown for quite long time during execution due to change in plant layout \n for reason of changes in railway siding layout, which results inadequacy of the acquired land \n and thus ITALCEMENTI had to acquire the additional land to accommodate the plant easily. \n Another reason for slowdown was due to the inadequate budget for civil work. The location \n of the project is just 4km away from the Ennore Sea Port. All the buildings were required \n piling in the foundations since the soil bearing capacity is very less. The piling in foundation \n was not envisaged in original budget for civil. \n This has put extensive pressure on project management team of ITALCEMENTI to acquire the \n additional land and to arrange the additional budget for civil. The project was kept on hold for \n approximately 6 months. \n Due to sudden hold on the project, WIL had to restructure all the commitments given to their","bbox":{"left":0.097647,"top":0.757694,"width":0.822563,"height":0.22542700000000004}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}