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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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2007 |
ACC
commissions Wind energy farm in Tamil
Nadu and Rajasthan |
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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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| 2008 |
ACC enters into Public
Private Partnership to upgrade seven Industrial
Training Institutes (ITI) |
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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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| 2009 |
Cement House and La Residency
transformed into Green buildings with Leadership
in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)
Gold and LEED Platinum certification respectively |
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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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2010 |
ACC
commissions Wind energy farm in Maharashtra
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2010 |
ACC
Sustainable Development Report 2009 wins
Association of Business Communicators
of India award in the category Environment
Communication. |
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2010 |
External
assurance for ACC Sustainable Development
Report 2009 - ACC’s sustainability
reporting and process was put through
external assurance in accordance with
the conventional ISAE 3000 standard and,
going beyond that to meet the requirements
defined by AA1000AS and AA1000AS (2008).
This is a maiden achievement for the cement
industry. |
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2010 |
Wind
energy generated by wind farm launched
by ACC in 2007 in Tamil Nadu became eligible
to receive Verified Emission Reductions
(VERs) which were traded in the European
market. |
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2010 |
ACC
receives FICCI Award for Outstanding Corporate
Vision Triple Impact Business Performance
Social & Environmental Action &
Globalisation - a unique award received
for the first time |
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| 2010 |
Cement House received 5-star
rating from the Bureau of Energy Efficiency
(BEE) |
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2011 |
World's
largest kiln installed at ACC Cement Plant,
Wadi, Karnataka with a capacity of 12,500
tonnes per day creating new landmarks
for cement industry |
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2011 |
Central
Control Room Building at ACC Chanda Plant,
Maharashtra set up as a Green building,
the first of its kind in an industrial
environment |
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| 2011 |
ACC signs MoU with IIT
Bombay for research on Sustainable Construction
and Affordable Habitats |
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