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The Ramco Cements Ltd. have commissioned Line III at its Ramasamy Raja Nagar (R R Nagar) of 3,000 TPD capacity of clinkerisation. This is the first integrated cement line, commissioned in the last 15 years in the South of Tamil Nadu.
The electrical energy required for this new line is being completely catered by green power from its own wind mills.
With the commissioning of Line III clinker manufacturing facility at its R R Nagar Plant, the requirement of limestone has gone up. To meet the additional requirement of limestone, the company have envisaged a wet beneficiation system at its mines, by which it can beneficiate marginal grade limestone / lime Kankar into cement grade raw material for manufacture of cement clinker.
The company has engaged one of the premier material science research institutes, in arriving at a proper process design and system design for this application and subsequently procured equipments from a leading European machinery supplier. The project execution had commenced during January 2023. Against the estimated commissioning time of July 2023, the project got commissioned one month ahead (i.e) in June 2023. The plant has been operating successfully. The company is in the process of stabilising the plant and arriving at the proper mix of various grades of limestone to be beneficiated, so as to meet the additional requirement of limestone. Since this plant is a wet beneficiation based system, the company uses water as a basic beneficiating agent.
Because of the technology the company is using and various measures undertaken by it, it has reached the following landmark achievements.
- The company does not draw any water from the ground and 100% of the water requirement is being met from the pits that have been stored with rain water. Of the total water used in the process, around 90% of the water is being recycled back into the system. The remaining 10% of the water is also allowed to be absorbed into the ground through soak pits to rejuvenate the ground water level.
- The system also gives abundant scope to beneficiate rejected / low grade ore to be used for cement manufacturing, thereby helping it to conserve the limestone mineral and extend the mines life.
By this way, the project is one of the important sustainability initiative in its business operations.
The company also manufactures a new plastering compound in the brand name of RAMCO ECO PLAST (self curing plaster) at R R Nagar. This plastering compound, once applied does not require curing at all, saving substantial quantity of water during construction.
The company also manufactures a special cement in the brand name of RAMCO 53 INFRA SUPER, especially for a high-tech concrete structures, which reduces the usage of admixtures and the amount of cement thereby bringing down the overall Carbon footprint.
All the above efforts emphasise the Companys focus on Innovate, Differentiate, Sustainable for a better tomorrow. |
