Ambuja Cements, part of the Holcim Group, has sketched out a plan to invest Rs 802 crore in 2014, in its various ongoing projects.

These projects involve clinker grinding units of 1.5 million tpa capacity each, at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, and at Osara in Madhya Pradesh. They also involve a cumulative investment of about Rs 3,500 crore. Both the projects have already obtained environmental clearance. Full-fledged construction work is expected to commence in the later part of 2014.

Ambuja has proposed to set up the 1.5 million tpa integrated greenfield cement plant, with 2.17 million tpa clinker facility, at Marwar Mundwa, in Rajasthan. The project is yet to receive approval. The company is also planning to set up a roller press at a cost of Rs 70 crore at its Rabriyawas unit in Rajasthan. The brownfield plant will add 0.80 million tonne grinding capacity in the first half of 2014.

As  part of its expansion plan, Ambuja Cements is also setting up a waste heat recovery plant and a new railway siding project at Rabriyawas, with an investment of Rs 75 crore and Rs 250 crore, respectively.