The First Plant Of Himalayan Cements: a blog around the company and their cement innovations.
The First Plant Of Himalayan Cements: a blog around the company and their cement innovations.
Jung Rodhak Cement Plant The First Plant Of Himalayan Cements: a blog around the company and their cement innovations.
Jung Rodhak Cement Plant The First Plant Of Himalayan Cements: a blog around the company and their cement innovations.
Jung Rodhak cement plant is the first and only cement plant in Nepal. It is a state of the art vertical shaft kiln cement plant with the capacity of 2600 tonnes per day (tpd) clinker production. The plant is located at Simikot of Humla district, one of the remote districts in Nepal, near to China border. The plant is around 500 kilometers away from Kathmandu on the way to Mt. Kailash Mansarovar Yatra (a famous holy place). The company has its own limestone mines in a very rich limestone deposit area, which is around 80 kilometers from the plant site. The company has its own captive power generation facility that can generate around 22 Megawatts (MW) of electricity from hydropower and supplies it for captive consumption of the plant as well as some surplus are sold to government grid. The company also has its own coal mine in Kalimati of Rupandehi district, south-west Nepal which supplies coal for their coal fired boiler in their captive power generation facility.
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The company has been in existence since 1990. The company’s cement plant is located in Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh, India. The company’s first manufacturing unit was established in 1996. That was followed by another plant in 2003-04 with a capacity of 10,000 mt and a third one in 2005-06 with a capacity of 12,000 mt.
The company has been regarded as one of the most innovative among the cement companies. It has received several awards over the years and has won many awards from the Ministry of Mines and the Government of India for its innovative products.
Jung Rodhak Cement Plant is a subsidiary of Bharat Cements. The company was incorporated in 2001. It is the first plant of Himalayan Cements. It has been set up with three kilns, each of 2000 tonnes per day capacity, and a cement grinding unit of 50 tonnes per day capacity. It is located in the Dang District at Rupendehi.
The process for the production of cement consists of blending, crushing and grinding of raw materials and clinkering to produce grey cement. The company’s production facility comprises a captive mine, limestone crusher and a raw meal grinding mill with a capacity to produce 1,700 tons per day.
The company’s products are marketed under the brand name ‘Himalayan’. In addition to this it also markets its products under the name ‘Jung Rodhak Cement’, ‘Ultra Tech’ and ‘Kohinoor’.
Jung Rodhak Cement Plant, located in Sindhupalchok district of Nepal, is the first cement plant of Himalayan Cements. The second plant was established in Chobhar, Kathmandu in 2014. They have been producing Nepal’s best quality cement from their plants since 10 years now.
Jung Rodhak Cement Plant’s production capacity per day is 1000 metric tons and has already supplied about 3 million metric tons of cement to the Nepali market. However, the plant’s maximum production capacity is 1500 metric tons per day. The plant has two major raw materials – limestone and gypsum which are used to produce Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), Portland Pozzolana Cement (PPC) and Urban Plus and Urban Pozzolana Cement (UPC).
Jung Rodhak Cement Plant is not only limited to domestic market but also exports its products to India, Bhutan and Bangladesh. The first shipment of Jung Rodhak Cement to India was made through Birgunj customs border in 2011 AD.
Himalayan Cements Limited is the first cement plant in Nepal. It was established in 1966. The Company is a joint venture between Govt. of Nepal, Udyog Bikas Bank and private sector promoters.
The company is located at Kavre district, Dhapasi. The company has been producing and supplying OPC 43 & 53 grade cement in the Nepalese market since its inception.
Jung Rodhak cement has been awarded with ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001:2004 (Environmental Management System) and OHSAS 18001:2007 (Occupational Health & Safety Assessment Series) certification by Bureau Veritas Certification, France.
Nepal is a land locked country. It has no access to the sea, so all the imports have to come by air or through India. The cost of transportation is always high in Nepal and it has been becoming higher as time goes by. The road facilities are not that good. Only some part of the country is connected by road, the rest are connected by mule path. They are the life line of the people who live in the mountain and hill region of Nepal. They use mule path for many purposes including transporting goods, food and other necessary things even today.
The cost of transportation restricts our import and export facility. We do not have access to sea, so we depend on India for transport. Transporting materials from India costs us more than it does for India. The same thing happens when we try to transport our goods outside our country; it costs more than what it costs others because of our geographical location .
We cannot afford to pay high price for everything; we need to find other ways to reduce cost. We can reduce cost by producing things locally instead of importing them from abroad or from neighbouring countries like India. We can produce cement in Nepal itself which we need for building houses, bridges, roads and other infrastructures.
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