Dalmia Bharat Cement

Dalmia Bharat has made significant investments in its R&D to support its cement business that involves manufacturing and marketing. It has created facilities for critical testing of cement and high-tech facilities to support manufacturing. In Q3 2016, the company opened its R&D centre in Chennai to support the company’s manufacturing, marketing and innovation initiatives and deliver new solutions to create industry benchmarks.

The facility, in the industrial heart of Balaji Nagar, Chennai, extends to an area of 2,500 sq-ft and comprises various sections like customer cell, chemical, physical, and concrete lab, is a landmark in its own right. It is equipped with state-of-the-art machinery for complete tests of concrete, cement and aggregates.
This R&D lab will focus on solving practical problems faced by customers regarding concrete and cement help propagate good concrete practices. The laboratory will explore innovative means to exceed the customer expectations through research work. This will also be an arena for domestic & customer training. The company’s commitment to sustainability led them to join CSI, a sector Initiative of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The initiative ensures continual monitoring, comparing and benchmarking of its performance of key sustainability issues in cement sector defined by CSI. As a group, it produces cement with carbon intensity lower than global and Indian averages. Its eastern operations produce one of the lowest carbon intensity blended cement. In its efforts to reduce environmental impact, it is focusing on clinker factor improvement in blended cements and exploring opportunities to increase usage of alternative fuels which are discarded as waste and byproducts products by other industry sectors.