Ranchi Refractory Industries (Jharkhand)

Introduction

The district of Ranchi is rich in minerals such as coal, lime stone, fireclay, china clay, granite, stone and sand. Ranchi district hosts about 10,500 industrial units of different types, including a cluster of 23 industrial units engaged in manufacturing refractory products. The refractory products find markets across the country. Most of the units use downdraft (DD) kilns for the firing of refractory products; a few units also use tunnel kilns for firing refractories. The average production capacity of DD kilns is about 150 tonnes per month (tpm), and of tunnel kilns, about 540 tpm.

Products manufactured

Refractory products such as acid blocks, basic blocks, castables, monolithics, refractory mortars, burner quarls, bottom pouring, ladle, silica brick

Number of MSMEs

23

Energy consumption

Low

Main fuels

Coal; petcoke; electricity; diesel

Production & turnover

46,440 tpa

Total energy consumption (toe)

7864

Leading industry association(s)

• Jharkhand Small Industries Association http://www.jsia.co.in/

Energy efficiency initiatives

• TERI-SDC Partnership: Scaling up Energy Efficient Technologies in Small Enterprises (EESE) http://www.sameeeksha.org/index.php?option=com_projects&task=level&title=EESE&id=41

Cluster profile

http://sameeeksha.org/pdf/clusterprofile/ranchi-refractory-industries-Jharkhand.pdf

Other resources

MSME Development Institute (MSME-DI), Ranchi http://sisiranchi.nic.in/