ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REPORT OF

AMBUJA CEMENT

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o Aadarsh Krishna 14IB301

o Aditi Jaiswal 14IB306

o Amarjeet Kumar 14IB310

o Armaan Singh Dhillon 14IB316

o Girdhar Prawal 14IB325

o Kanika Jain 14IB333

ORGANISATION

PROFILE

• Ambuja Cements Limited (ACL) is India’s leading cement company.

• The organisation in line with its corporate philosophy of “Sustainable Development”, has always been in the forefront of environmental improvement initiatives.

• The ultimate objective of the organisation is to maintain a proper balance between environmental protection & social wellbeingincluding community development.

AMBUJA’S CEMENT INITIATIVES

WATER MANAGEMENT

Water is a key component of cement production. Plans were drawn out to minimise all usage and increase efforts in conservation and replenishment.

Through rainwater harvesting large quantities of water were collected that would have otherwise gone unused.

Company has built over 170 check-dams and small barriers across the country to avoid water runoff from streams and rivers.

16.6% of total water is recycled and reused in dust suppression, gardening and other purposes, after treatment in water plants.

First Cement Company in the World to be certified as ‘Water Positive.

ENVIRONMENT

ACL is empowered by the overarching ‘Corporate Environment Policy’ along with unit specific policies.

A key element of ACL’s approach to environmental management is the Company's environmental assessment system for the annual monitoring of a plant’s environment performance.

Environment Meet 2013

Initiative towards climate change

Reduction in Clinker factor

Improving thermal energy efficiency and process technology

Optimizing fuel composition, including the

use of wastes as fuel.

Waste Heat Recovery.

ENERGY MANAGEMENT

• Energy contributes to significant proportion of production costs. With the shrinking conventional energy sources, company has chosen to proactively address the challenge by launching a focused strategy and transformation to drive down our energy consumption and cost.

• Started a programme called EARN- Energy Activation Across Regional Networks with an aim to reduce energy cost by 2015.

SAFETY-TOWARDS “ZERO HARM”

Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) is one of the core values and company is committed to strive for “Zero Harm”.

Process safety audits and “What If Analysis” has been initiated for all coal handling and milling system to improve the safety while handling coals.

“We Care” Concept was launched to drive the OH&S through “People Power”.

Fire Fighting Training Program was organized at Corporate Office.

Safety Perception Survey was conducted through DuPont across ACL in Dec. ’13.

Business…The Company has been able to keep the production cost flat year on year basis by working on improving operational efficiencies, cost optimization and continued focus on customer &commercial excellence.

CUSTOMERS…

• The Ambuja journey has always focused on their customers.

Customer Support Group (CSG) offers

• Awareness programs

• Training and Skill Development

• Knowledge Sharing

The Ambuja Knowledge Initiative is an endeavor to seek the patronage and partnership of the Architecture and Engineering Community (AEC)for the wonderful world of Cement and Concrete.

Community…

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has always been an integral part of

Ambuja Cements Ltd. (ACL).

The Company has spent ` 52.57 crores during the year 2013 on CSR activities which is over 4% of the Company’s net profit.

Employees…Training and Development

Initiatives are directed at enriching leadership,

behavioural, functional and technical skills as well

as bringing about a change in the Attitude,

Knowledge and Skills of the employees.

Leadership Development Programmes

during 2013.

• The Leadership Development Programme

(LDP) for Senior Management Level (SML)

employees was conducted at IIM Ahmedabad.

• 2 batches of the Management Development

Programme (MDP) at NMIMS, Mumbai were

organised for Middle Management Level

(MML) employees.