Kakatiya Cement Sugar & Industries Ltd

Kakatiya Cement, Sugar & Industries Limited, formerly known as Kakatiya Cement Limited was incorporated in July, 1979 with the Registrar of Companies, in Hyderabad. Pursuant to the Order dated. 04.12.1998 of the BIFR, the erstwhile Sree Kailas Sugars and Chemicals Limited (SKSCL) was merged with the Company with effect from 1st April, 1997 and the name of the Company was changed to Kakatiya Cement, Sugar & Industries Limited in 1998. The Company's activities are organized into three operating divisions namely Cement, Sugar and Power. The major activity of the company is to produce, manufacture, refine, sell and generally to deal in all kinds of Portland Cement, sugar, generation and distribution of power. The Company started the business with a plant to manufacture ordinary Portland cement with a licensed capacity of 200 tpd at Srinivasanagar, Andhra Pradesh. It was promoted by P Venkateswarlu with equity support from Andhra Pradesh Industrial Development Corporation. The project was completed as per the schedule and commenced its commercial operations from Feb.'83. The capacity utilisation has always been above the 100% mark and for many years it was 125% of the licensed capacity. The operations of the company have been profitable since its inception. KCL modernised and expanded its installed plant capacity from 200 tpd to 600 tpd (cost : Rs 17.15 cr) wich was funded by financial institutions and internal accruals. Commercial production on the expansion capacity started in Mar.'92. It came out with a Rs 4.73-cr issue equity shares (premium : Rs 40) in Oct.'92, to augment its long-term working capital and to repay dues and to install a DG set of 2270 kVA. The company mainly manufactures and markets all kinds of portland cement, limestone, etc. KCL's major clients are in Andhra Pradesh. It has collaborated with Fuller KCP to supply core equipment and for the cement mill. The 17 MW Bagasse based Co-generation Plant commenced its commercial operations w.e.f. 12th April,2002.