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1936
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Incorporation
of The Associated Cement Companies Limited
on August 1, 1936. |
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1944 |
ACC’s
first community development initiative
near Bombay
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1947 |
ACC
helps relocate employees and associates
during Partition of India – evacuating
them to the new country of their choice. |
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1947 |
India’s
first entirely indigenous cement plant
established at Chaibasa in Bihar |
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1952 |
Village
Welfare Scheme launched |
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1955 |
Sindri
cement works used the waste product calcium
carbonate sludge from fertilizer factory
at Sindri. |
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1956 |
Bulk
Cement Depot established at Okhla, Delhi
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1957 |
Technical
training institute established at Kymore,
Madhya Pradesh. |
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1961 |
Blast
furnace slag from TISCO used at the Chaibasa
Unit to manufacture Portland Slag Cement
for the first time in India. |
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1965 |
ACC’s
Central Research Station (CRS) established
at Thane |
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1965 |
Manufacture
of Portland Pozzolana Cement. |
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1968 |
Advent
of computers in ACC for data processing
and designing management information and
control systems. |
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1968 |
ACC
supplied and commissioned one-million-tonne
iron ore pelletising plant ordered by
TISCO |
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1977 |
ACC
receives ASSOCHAM first national award
for the year 1976 instituted for outstanding
performance in promoting rural and agricultural
development activities. |
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1978 |
Introduction
of the energy efficient precalcinator
technology for the first time in India.
Full scale commercial production based
on MFC technology at Wadi in 1979. |
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1982 |
Commissioning
of the first 1 MTPA plant in the country
at Wadi, Karnataka. |
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1984 |
ACC
achieves a breakthrough in import substitution
by developing and supplying a special
G type of oil well cement to ONGC. |
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1992 |
Incorporation
of Bulk Cement Corporation of India, a
joint venture with the Government of India.
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1993 |
ACC
starts the commercial manufacture of Ready
Mixed Concrete at Mumbai. |
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1995 |
ACC
selected as Most Respected Company in
India by Business India. |
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2001 |
Commissioning
of the new plant of 2.6 MTPA capacity
at Wadi, Karnataka plant, the largest
in the country, and among the largest
sized kilns in the world. |
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2002 |
ACC
wins PHDCCI Good Corporate Citizen Award
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2003 |
ACC
wins Enterprise Excellence Award from
the Indian Insititute of Industrial Engineers.
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2004 |
GreenTech
Safety Gold and Silver Awards awarded
to Madukkarai Cement Works and Katni Refractory
Works by Greentech Foundation for outstanding
performance in Safety Management System. |
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2005 |
ACC
receives the CFBP Jamnalal Bajaj Uchit
Vyavahar Puraskar Certificate of Merit
– 2004 from Council For Fair Business
Practices. |
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2005 |
Commissioning
of Modernisation and Expansion project
at Chaibasa in Jharkhand, replacing old
wet process technology with a new 1.2
MTPA clinkering unit, together with a
captive power plant of 15 MW. |
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2006 |
ACC
announces new Workplace policy for HIV/AIDS |
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2006 |
ACC
receives Good Corporate Citizen Award
2005-06 from Bombay Chamber of Commerce
and Industry |
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| 2006 |
ACC establishes Anti Retroviral
Treatment Centre for HIV/AIDS patients at
Wadi in Karnataka– the first ever
such project by a private sector company
in India. |
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2006 |
Waste
management services launched |
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2007 |
ACC
partners with Christian Medical College
for treatment of HIV/AIDS in Tamil Nadu |
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2007 |
Sumant
Moolgaokar Technical Institute completes
50 years and reopens with new curriculum |
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2007 |
ACC
commissions Wind energy farm in Tamilnadu.
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2007 |
ACC ACADEMY opened in Thane, a new centre for training and development.
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2008 |
ACC Cement Technology Institute formally inaugurated at Jamul on July 7.
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2008 |
First Sustainable Development Report released on June 5.
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2008 |
First Sustainable Development Council set up on August 18.
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2008 |
ACC wins CNBC-TV18 India Business Leader Award in the
category India Corporate Citizen of the year 2008
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2008 |
Project
Orchid launched to transform our Corporate
Office, Cement House into a green building |
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2008 |
Ladies Clubs of ACC establish their social volunteering and community welfare wing called ACC AHEAD (Association for Health, Education and Development). |
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2009 |
ACC received the Jamanalal Bajaj "Uchit Vyavahar Puraskar" of Council for Fair Business Practices. |
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2009 |
The
NGO "Karmayog" rated ACC as the best company
in the cement industry in terms of Corporate
Social Responsibility. |
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2009 |
ACC is allotted coal blocks in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. |
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2009 |
Second Sustainable Development Report released as a web update. |
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2010 |
ACC
acquires 100 percent of the financial
equity of Encore Cements & Additives
Private Limited which is a slag grinding
plant in Vishakhapatnam in coastal Andhra
Pradesh. This company became a wholly-owned
subsidiary of ACC in January 2010. |
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