Leading cement manufacturers are eyeing Binani Cement assets post blooper indication by NCLT

Short while ago, the National Company Law Tribunal, Kolkata made a revelation that an insolvency plea against the Binani Cement filed by the Bank of Baroda. Soon after this news broke, top domestic cement players are busy in finding the shortest route to reach out the in-demand assets of the Brij Binani Group Company, in order to shore up their pan-Indian market presence and bump into a prospective value buy, multiple sources related to uncompleted negotiations on the conditions of the anonymity.
On July 25th, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, Kolkata ordered “on the basis of documents filed by the financial creditor (Bank of Baroda) that (the) corporate debtor (Binani Cement) has committed default in making payment of Rs97.7 crore and therefore... the application for initiating corporate insolvency resolution process deserves to be admitted.”

Binani cement is one of the most popular domestic brands in the cement industry. Apart from Binani there are other big-shot cement companies currently ruling the market; they are- Ultratech Cement, Shree Cement, Nirma, Dalmia Bharat and JSW cement. All these companies have got through the lenders and intended preliminary interest in Binani Cements. There is a lot of interest in the company and all these are at premature phases. The complete deal structure will be disclosed once the potential suitors will preserve their strategy-based on the final settlement plan sanctioned by the interim resolution professional and the lenders.


Binani holds a good export potential for the company’s latency in the middle-east along with the sizable mine reserves at the location of their plant. As an outcome, the cost of the production appears to be lesser. Thus, the assets of Binani Cements are attractive to the other major market player. Worthwhile mentioning that the plant location in Rajasthan holds a good access to the market of Gujrat. This is supposed to be another valid reason behind the high interest in the assets. As per the company website, Binani has a global manufacturing capacity of 11.25 million tons per annum (mtpa), with a domestic capacity of 6.25 mtpa with an integrated part of India and China and it has its grinding units in Dubai.

Tracking the cement productivity of the country, in the last one and a half years, most of the cement deals have been clogged in the range of $100-$135 per tonne in terms of enterprise value and have caught the sales capacity ranging between 5 mtpa- 20mtpa. The capacity of usage in north and western regions lies between 70-80% is a healthful number, because pan-India the capacity utilization is lower than 70%. Experts say the reason behind the failure of Binani is affliction in management impotence in setting up a restructuring plan.

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