DHARAMSI MORARJEE-Drop in Sales

chrome bricks, which will be marketed under the brand name 'Perilex-ACC'. is expected to commence by the end of December 1994.
Meanwhile, the company is in the process of enhancing its total cement production at Gagal and with the completion of the pre- commissioning trials of its new 10 lakh tonnes plant its total capacity will increase to over 20 lakh tonnes per annum. Regular commercial production is expected to commence in the second quarter of 1994-95. Installation work of another 10 lakh tonne per annum capacity plant is in progress and the project is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 1994-95 for trial production. The company is also installing an additional power plant of 25 MW capacity at Wadi which is expected to be operational in the third quarter of 1994-95 thus insulating it from the uncertain power supply of the Karnataka State Electricity Board. The expansion-cum-modernisation project at the Madukkarai plant, which will enhance its capacity to 8 lakh tonnes per annum, has been substantially completed, while the project at Falta, West Bengal, for the manufacture of 10,000 tonnes per annum of high purity synthetic ferric oxide is expected to commence trial production by September 1994.