ACC sets up cement blending unit in Udupi.

ACC Ltd. has set up a cement blending unit at Padubidri in Udupi district.

Addressing presspersons recently, PN Iyer, Chief Executive (South), ACC Ltd., said that the unit uses fly-ash from the thermal power plant of Udupi Power Corporation Ltd. in Udupi.

The unit is capable of blending 30,000 tonnes of cement a month. Clinker from ACC's plant at Wadi in Gulbarga district is used for cement production at the blending unit in Udupi district.

The Udupi plant caters to the requirements of cement in coastal Karnataka and Kerala, he added.

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