Ramco Cements

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Ramco Cements
Private Sector
Traded as BSE500260
NSERAMCEM
Industry Building material
power generation
Founded 1894
Founder P A C Ramasamy Raja
Headquarters Chennai, India
Key people
Venkatarama Raju, MD
A. V. Dharmakrishnan, CEO
Products Cement
Revenue Increase US$3.7 billion (2014–15)[1]
Slogan Engineered for concrete
Website www.ramcocements.in

Ramco Cements Limited (formerly Madras Cements Ltd) is the flagship company of the Ramco Group, a business group based in Chennai, South India. It is the fifth largest cement producer in India. The company also produces ready mix concrete and dry mortar products and operates wind farms.

It manufactures and markets Portland cement, blast furnace slag cement, white cement and Pozzolana cement. The company has production facilities at Alathiyur, Chengalpet, Kolaghat, Medavakkam, Sriperumpudur, Vijayawada, Virudhunagar and Vizag in India.

Ramco opened its first windfarm at Muppandal in 1993. In 1995, Ramco Cements installed 69 additional windmills at Poolavadi near Coimbatore. As of 2015, the total installed windmill capacity is with 159.185 MW with 229 individual units.

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