ABB has been awarded orders worth Rs.311 crore from Grasim Industries' cement division and Ultratech Cement, part of the Aditya Birla Group for their cement capacity expansions.

The scope of work involves turnkey electrical and automation systems including the installation of 220 / 132 kV switchyards and supply of a range of switchgear, motors, low and medium voltage drives, power and distribution transformers, capacitors as well as intelligent LV panels.

ABB solutions will serve two cement plants of 2.8 million tpa capacity each, being set up by Grasim. This includes a green-field facility at Kotputli , a brown-field expansion at Shambupura and two green-field grinding units of 1.3 million tpa each at Panipat and Dadri.

The technology will also facilitate the operations of a 2.8 million tpa brown-field plant expansion at Ultratech Tadipatri Cement works as well as a grinding unit at Ginegera of 1.3 million tpa capacity and three captive power plants each of 2x25 MW capacity being established at Kotputli, Shambhupura and Tadipatri.

Work on the projects is expected to be completed by the end-2007.