According to news reports, UltraTech Cement's Rs 16,189 crore acquisition of the cement business of Jaiprakash Associates may be 'completed soon', according a top executive in the know of the situation.

The increased interest in white topping has been noticed, chiefly, in Thin and Ultra-Thin White Topping during the last decade. Their effectiveness has further augmented interest in them because; they satisfy the demand caused by rapidly deteriorating highways confronted with limited fund availability.

Bharathi Cement started commercial production on 28th September 2009. Today, Bharathi is a leading cement brand and company in South India.

A series of steps have been initiated by the government to set the ball rolling in its ambitious plan to create smart cities across India. This is evident from the fact that by June 2017, a total of 510 projects with a total investment of Rs 20,669 crore will take off. While Rs 1.05 lakh crore will be spent on area-based development (ABD) plans, Rs 26,141 crore will be spent on pan-city solutions in next five years. The fourth edition of the summit brought together over 1,500 global and national policy­makers, financiers and technologists, coupled with over 25 city and state representatives for a common agenda: Mission Execution.

The symposium held by the National Council for Cement and Building Materials on 24 January 2017 at Hotel Radisson, Hyderabad was attended by more than 100 delegates from the cement industry and construction sector, research institutes, government agencies and machinery manufacturers.

The National Council for Cement and Building Materials organised a one-day technology meet on Chinese cement technology and machinery at NCB's Hyderabad unit. The meet was organised at the request of China Building Material Machinery Association (CBMMA), to share common concerns faced by both countries in the areas of economy, energy and environment which are primarily directed towards controlling and minimising the country's carbon footprint.

Hyderabad Industries Ltd has announced that the company has commenced commercial production in January at its newly established dry mix manufacturing facility at Jhajjar (Haryana) with an installed capacity of 72,000 MT (i.e., 44,000 MT of wall putty and 28,000 MT of cement-based grey mortar) per annum.

Recently, BIS has formulated IS 16415:2015 on composite cement, thus clearing the way for using both fly ash and slag in production of this type of cement and gaining advantage of these two types of SCMs, together.

ExxonMobil Lubricants Private Limited participated as a technical partner at the Confederation of Indian Industry´s (CII) third edition of workshops with industry associations, and technical discussions with Accredited Energy Auditors across various cities.