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Engineering a
Future-ready
Construction
Ecosystem

Through consistent product innovation and technology-led transformation, ACC combines high-quality, low-impact products with digital and AI-enabled systems. The integration of AI is streamlining and enhancing internal processes while serving as a key driver of sustainable, future-ready growth. Furthermore, continued investments in R&D, operational excellence, cybersecurity and intelligent logistics support sustainable construction at scale.

Material Topics

E1 Climate & Energy
E4 Circular Economy
E6 Sustainable Construction
G3 Information Technology & Data Privacy

Strategic Priorities

S3 Leading in ESG Performance
S4 Delivering Superior Performance

Key Risks and Opportunities

R1 Maintaining Market Position in a Dynamic Industry Environment
R4 Cybersecurity Threats
R6 ESG Risk
R9 Project Execution

Stakeholders Impacted

Investors and Shareholders Investors and Shareholders
Channel Partners Channel Partners
Suppliers Suppliers
Customers Customers
Employees Employees
Community and NGOs Community and NGOs
Government and Regulatory Bodies Government and Regulatory Bodies
Construction Professionals Construction Professionals
Industry Associations Industry Associations

SDGs Impacted

SDG 9 SDG 11 SDG 12 SDG 17
Focus
Areas
Development and Key Initiatives
Key Performance Indicators
Responsible Products and Sustainable Construction
  • Development of advanced cement formulations and sustainable products at the Cement & Concrete R&D Centre in Kalamboli, Navi Mumbai
  • Premium cement categories growing 2-3x faster than basic cement
5
Products Listed in GRIHA's Green Catalogue
Technical Services
  • Offering customised and innovative value-added solutions
  • Going the extra-mile to service customers through high-performance, sustainable and premium products
  • Optimised processes using advanced AI & ML frameworks across Manufacturing, Logistics & Sales
47,850
Customer Sites Provided with Instant Mix Solutions
Dedicated B2B & B2C teams
serving customers
Tailor-made solutions
for every construction need
Accelerated Digitalisation
  • CiNOC (Cement Intelligent Network Operations Centre) was launched to infuse in operations & businesses an AI layer deep into the Company's enterprise fabric, which will facilitate a paradigm shift in operations
  • Digital sales platform provides a consolidated view of real-time transactions across channel partners and construction professionals
  • Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD): The ePOD system has reduced invoice processing time by 30% and document management costs by 40%
  • Equipped with advanced technological solutions, analytics, and security systems to enhance operational control and surveillance
  • Major substations are already onboarded and operated remotely from Ahmedabad Corporate House through an unmanned setup, maximising asset efficiency
  • Smart Tab for Sales Managers
Tech-enabled
Operations across the Value Chain
Reduced invoice processing time by 30% and document management costs by 40% through the ePOD system

Responsible Products and Sustainable Construction

The Company is reducing its carbon footprint while consistently enhancing product quality and upholding its brand promise. Its products support customers and construction professionals in curbing their environmental impact, while improving construction quality and reducing overall operating costs.

Building Tomorrow Responsibly

ACC demonstrated its capability to support complex, large-scale construction projects through the successful execution of a technically demanding foundation application requiring uninterrupted operations, precision engineering and seamless logistical coordination. The project showcased ACC's expertise in delivering consistent quality and reliable performance for mega developments where speed, scale and execution excellence are critical.

At the core of the project was ACC's proprietary EcoMaxx low-carbon concrete solution, engineered to enhance durability while significantly lowering environmental impact through the increased use of supplementary cementitious materials. Supported by advanced temperaturecontrol technologies, real-time monitoring and integrated operational planning, the execution reinforced ACC's leadership in sustainable construction solutions and its ability to deliver highperformance outcomes with accuracy, resilience and environmental responsibility.

Technical Services

ACC Certified Technology

To address customer needs and promote sustainable construction practices, ACC has introduced innovative solutions such as ACC Certified Technology, Instant Concrete Mix Proportion and Modular Curing. These advancements enhance construction quality while aligning with the Company's ambitious sustainability goals. Through these initiatives, ACC continues to support the development of environment-friendly and resource-efficient construction projects.

64,854
ACC Certified Technology (ACT) sites
CASE STUDY

Building Strength, Shaping Landmarks

Mahalaxmi Tower in Rahuri, Maharashtra, showcases how advanced materials and technical expertise can elevate construction quality and durability. At the core of the project is ACC Concrete+, delivering superior performance, enhanced strength and long-term resilience that support structural reliability and construction efficiency. The close involvement of technical services team of ACC has ensured optimal application, guidance and on-site support, enabling precision and consistency at every stage.

Together, the product and technical expertise are driving safer, stronger and more sustainable development, positioning this tall structure as a significant emerging landmark in the region.

CASE STUDY

Building Infrastructure across Regions

In Katihar, Bihar, the Ram Darbar Resort project reflects ACC's commitment to partnering closely with customers to meet their unique construction needs. The project has chosen ACC Gold Water Shield for its premium, denser composition and superior water-resistant technology—ideal for structures requiring long-lasting protection in challenging conditions.

By working hand in hand with all stakeholders, ACC Certified Technical experts are ensuring correct product choice for customised requirements, precise application and seamless execution.

This close collaboration not only delivers the right product solution for customised requirements but also demonstrates how ACC's innovative products and on-ground expertise together deliver reliable, high-quality and future-ready infrastructure.

Empowering Engineers and Architects

The engineering and architectural community plays a pivotal role in shaping national infrastructure and advancing development. Recognising their contribution, the Company, together with Ambuja Cements Limited, partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, to launch the Executive Excellence Programme (EEP), a four-day residential certification course for engineers, architects and construction professionals. Designed by IIT faculty, the programme enhances technical expertise through advanced industry-focused learning. Participants, selected from states including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Uttarakhand, and representing organisations such as Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and MAX Infra, benefited from fully sponsored immersive training, industry insights and networking opportunities.

Contractor Engagement across the Company

ACC benefited as Ambuja Cements strengthened contractor engagement and trust through structured plant visits across various locations nationwide under the NEEV Abhiyaan. Contractors were invited to experience the cement manufacturing process first-hand, gaining practical insights into quality assurance, safety practices and operational excellence. The visits included guided walkthroughs of key production stages, interactive discussions with plant teams, and recognition of participants through certificates of appreciation. By providing transparency into operations and enabling direct interaction with its teams, Ambuja Cements reinforced confidence in product quality, demonstrated its commitment to high manufacturing standards, and deepened long-term relationships with existing and prospective contractors.

ACC's RMX

ACC's Ready-Mix Concrete (RMX) business operates a nationwide network of 117 plants, significantly shaping India's construction sector for over three decades.

Through innovation, enhanced service standards and sustainable practices, ACC has set industry benchmarks and holds the GRIHA certification.

Enabling Scalable Growth through Digital Transformation in Adani Concrete

Adani Concrete has advanced a comprehensive digital transformation programme to strengthen scalability, process standardisation and operational resilience across its RMC business. By integrating SAP with multiple batching software platforms, the Company created a unified production backbone that ensures process consistency and supports seamless expansion. Advanced analytics tools, including Sales Analytics dashboards and a Plant Location Optimiser, enhanced data-driven decision-making and commercial agility, while the widespread adoption of a digital Quality Management System across over 100 plants laid the foundation for automated quality governance. Customer engagement was strengthened through the Adani Concrete Connect CRM, improving lead tracking and sales transparency, alongside SAP Ariba and Volody implementations that enhanced procurement efficiency and contract governance. Collectively, these initiatives have established a cohesive digital ecosystem that drives productivity, strengthens compliance and enables sustained, scalable growth.

Digital RMX Logistics Management

Adani Cement has implemented an integrated RMC logistics management portal that enables live vehicle tracking, real-time reporting and alerts, seamless ERP and SAP integration, a structured transit mixer queuing system and enhanced customer visibility. The platform ensures end-to-end data synchronisation and operational transparency, optimising dispatch planning and delivery coordination. By enabling real-time decision-making and process control, the solution improves logistics efficiency, reduces turnaround time and enhances overall productivity across the RMX network.

Delivering Quality

The Company is one of India's pioneering brands in Portland cement and ready-mix concrete, renowned for its quality and durability. Over the decades, it has delivered numerous mega projects across the country. ACC's Gold and Silver range of cement, developed for specialised applications, helps reduce environmental impact while staying well suited to general construction needs. In addition, the Company offers a portfolio of value-added products that deliver exceptional performance and value to its customers.

The Cement and Concrete R&D Centre at Kalamboli, Navi Mumbai, continues to drive innovation by developing advanced cement formulations and sustainable product solutions, supporting improved performance and responsible growth across the construction value chain.

100%
Compliant with BIS Parameters

FutureX: Forging India's Next- Gen Leaders

Adani Cement launched FutureX, a nationwide academia-industry engagement programme designed to prepare India's youth for realworld challenges in infrastructure, sustainability and engineering. Announced on Engineer's Day, the initiative set out to connect classrooms with global industry practices by partnering with 100+ leading engineering institutions (including IITs, NITs and top private/ state colleges) and 100+ schools across 100+ cities. Today, it has expanded to over 750 partner institutions, engaging more than 1.3 million students.

FutureX supports the Government's Yogya Bharat Mission and the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047 through Smart Cement Labs, robotics and AI demonstrations, STEM learning sessions, plant visits, R&D collaborations, expert interactions, internships and pre-placement opportunities. Interactive initiatives such as science quizzes, leadership talks and research on decarbonisation and circularity further enhance engagement. By bridging academia and industry, FutureX fosters skills, innovation and a future-ready workforce aligned with national development goals.

750+
Partner Institutions

1.3 million
Students Engaged

Rewards Connect

Rewards Connect is a dynamic, points-based loyalty programme designed to reward contractors for generating leads, recommending or purchasing ACC products, and availing themselves of on-site technical services. To further enhance engagement, enrolled contractors can also earn bonus points through interactive games, quizzes and exclusive events, making every association with ACC more rewarding and value driven. To date, over 3.82 lakh contractors have enrolled under the Rewards Connect programme, reflecting its wide acceptance and impact across markets.

Accelerated Digitalisation

ACC considers digitalisation a critical enabler of sustainable business growth and has, in recent years, actively integrated digital technologies across key functions, including sales, logistics, materials management, manufacturing and control systems. Guided by a well-defined digital transformation strategy, the Company is reimagining core processes to optimise resource utilisation, enhance operational efficiency and drive long-term sustainable growth, while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements.

Guided by the RESQ philosophy— Reliability, Efficiency, Sustainability, and Quality, the Company's digital strategy is anchored on three foundational pillars: re-engineering core platforms, re-imagining processes to scale dynamically, and future-proofing for sustained intelligence. This strategic shift from 'digital-in-business' to 'digitalis- business' ensures that every decision, process, and interaction is powered by intelligence, supporting sustainable business growth and efficient use of resources across operations.

Digital Strategy and Approach

Pillar 1

Reimagining and Reengineering the Core

Building a strong, intelligent foundation for scale

Adani Ambuja Intelligence Platform and CiNOC

A secure and scalable AI-first platform that unifies enterprisewide data and enables insight-led decision-making. CiNOC acts as the central intelligence layer by integrating ERP, IoT, analytics, and fleet systems, bringing realtime visibility and faster decision throughput across operations.

Cloud-Native Architecture and ERP Backbone

A fully cloud-native infrastructure supported by software-defined networks ensures resilience, performance, and cost agility. A standardised ERP backbone strengthens financial integrity, drives real-time operations, and enables consistent decision-making across the organisation.

Digital Trust and Cyber Resilience

A comprehensive OT cybersecurity framework covering asset visibility, risk management, and continuous monitoring enhances operational stability. Secure access systems, along with automated backup and recovery solutions, improve reliability and incident response preparedness. The Company is ISO 27001 certified.

Pillar 2

Strategic Differentiation at Scale

Driving efficiency, responsiveness, and customer-centric growth

Touchless and Intelligent Processes

Digital interventions such as ePOD and autonomous invoice-to-pay solutions are simplifying operations, reducing turnaround time, and improving accuracy. Order-to-cash processes have been redesigned and master data foundations strengthened, supported by AI-led finance transformation, rolling forecasts, and scenario-based planning.

Integrated Logistics Visibility

Enhanced digital tracking across a fleet of more than 60,000 trucks enables real-time visibility, better route discipline, and improved turnaround times across plants. Initiatives such as DIGIPIN are strengthening delivery precision and traceability, improving service reliability.

Plant of the Future

Manufacturing operations are being transformed through deployment of over 10,000 IoT sensors across 38 units, enabling predictive maintenance and improving equipment reliability. AI-driven optimisation across clinker and fuel efficiency, along with digital command centres and automated control systems, are improving throughput and reducing downtime. These capabilities are progressing towards more autonomous and intelligent operations.

Customer and Partner Experience

Dealer onboarding has been accelerated through self-service digital platforms, significantly reducing turnaround time. Predictive delivery, remote quality insights, and integrated engagement platforms are strengthening customer and partner experience across touchpoints.

Pillar 3

Future-proofing with Sustainable Intelligence

Embedding intelligence, sustainability, and agility into the value chain

AI-Led Operating Model

The Company is progressing towards an environment where AI and human capabilities work together to drive better outcomes. Intelligent systems are enabling faster decision-making, improving responsiveness, and strengthening operational control across functions.

Connected Value Chain from Quarry to Lorry

Digital is being embedded across the value chain, connecting operations from quarry to lorry. Capabilities such as voice-enabled interfaces, drone-based inspections, and automated traceability solutions are improving safety, visibility, and execution on the ground.

Digital Twins and Lifecycle Visibility

Digital twins are enhancing visibility across the lifecycle, from capital investment to operations, enabling better planning, improved efficiency, and more sustainable outcomes.

Sustainability Intelligence

Digital dashboards are enabling high visibility into greenhouse gas emissions, supporting better tracking, material optimisation, and greener logistics planning. These capabilities are aligning operational performance with sustainability priorities.

People and Capability Building

This transformation is as much about people as it is about technology. The Company is investing in digital capability building across the workforce through structured learning programmes and cross-functional collaboration. Teams across levels are being equipped to adopt, adapt, and lead change, ensuring that digital becomes a way of working across the organisation.

Strengthening a Future-ready Digital Backbone

The Company is strengthening its digital infrastructure to support more efficient and sustainable operations. The initiative also supports the gradual adoption of advanced digital solutions, including Digital Twins, aimed at improving reliability, forecasting and operational efficiency across plants.

AI-enabled Operational Excellence

ACC has launched the Cement Intelligent Network Operations Centre (CiNOC), embedding Agentic AI to support real-time decision-making and enhanced operational control across the enterprise. By infusing a deep AI layer into both operations and business processes, CiNOC is designed to drive a paradigm shift in the way the Company operates. Complementing this initiative, a new vendor onboarding platform has been deployed, which significantly accelerates onboarding timelines, making the process faster and more seamless than purchasing a SIM, thereby improving efficiency and responsiveness across the value chain.

Digital Precision in Logistics

ACC is among the first companies in India to adopt DIGIPIN, the Government of India's pioneering Digital Address System (beta). By dividing the country into approximately 4m x 4m grids and assigning each a unique 10-character alphanumeric code linked to latitude and longitude, DIGIPIN enables pinpoint delivery identification. This advancement enhances transparency, traceability and accountability across our logistics and distribution network, driving greater operational efficiency and strengthening last-mile delivery precision.

Logistics Transformation

At ACC, logistics is regarded as a critical extension of product quality, where precision, reliability and efficiency accompany every consignment. Recognising that quality must be preserved beyond the plant gate, the Company is part of one of India's most integrated cement logistics networks, under Adani Cement, comprising 60,000+ GPS-enabled trucks, 11 GPWIS rakes, 10 bulk cement terminals and 17 sea-based terminals. This extensive infrastructure enables optimised routing, faster turnaround, multimodal efficiency and dependable service across markets.

Complementing technological capability with people-centric practices, ACC invests in Driver Management Centres that prioritise safety, training and well-being for its frontline logistics workforce. Together, these efforts ensure that operational discipline, safety and service excellence are embedded in every movement, reinforcing ACC's commitment to delivering quality with consistency and purpose.

60,000+
GPS-enabled Trucks
11
GPWIS Rakes
17
Sea-based Terminals including 10 Bulk Cement Terminals (BCTs)
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