Birla Corp plans to increase capacity to 30 mt by 2027

M P Birla group flagship, Birla Corporation, will increase its annual cement production capacity to 30 million tonnes (mt) by 2027. Addressing shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, Harsh Vardhan Lodha, chairman of the MP Birla group, said, “Plans are afoot to reach a target of 30 mt by 2027,” adding that details of the plans would be announced once they are firmed up and approved by the board of directors. The increase to 30 mt is a new target set by the company, which had earlier said that it would raise its production capacity to 25 mt by 2025. Birla Corporation’s current production capacity is 15.6 mt, which will go up to almost 20 mt by the end of the current fiscal year, when its greenfield 3.9 mt plant at Mukutban, near Nagpur, is commissioned.