India is the second largest cement producing country in the world, next only to China. It produces about 7 per cent of the global production

Southern region, which had taken a lead in price hike actions recently, has been ahead of others in reversing their earlier actions too. This has affected the near term pricing sentiment of the overall market.

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Pratap Kumar Ghosh, Group Managing Director, Ercom Engineers, is of the opinion that we have to study the consumption centres as well as the availability of other additives, cementitious products, which can improve the quality of cement and also meet local quality of the market.

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Indian cement industry, the second largest in the world, has witnessed a revival for demand during FY19. The industry reported a positive growth of 4.8 per cent and 6.5 per cent in FY16 and FY18 respectively and a marginally negative growth in FY16.

If you look at quality control part of the Indian cement business, we have come up with a solution that is completely modular. In India, quality control is not given the right kind of importance in terms of allocation of funds.

Even as cement industry is saddled with excess capacity of over 150 million tonnes (MT), and implementation of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) is in full swing leading to consolidation in the industry, the cement players are thinking it is the right time to chalk out expansion plans, via greenfield and brownfield projects.

The April-June 2018 (Q1) report card of some major cement companies is out, and it has highlighted the major and persistent structural concern affecting the industry - the absence of price hikes.