Aditya Birla December cement shipments up 10.5% year-on-year

Aditya Birla Group said on Tuesday cement shipments in December rose 10.5% from a year earlier to 3.29 million tonnes.

Production rose 10% from a year ago to 3.22 million tonnes, the company said in a statement.

In November, the group said it was combining its cement operations under UltraTech Cement to make India's No 1 cement firm, with installed capacity of about 49 million tonnes a year.