Ujjwal Batria has been appointed as the new chief operating officer (COO) of Dalmia Cement (Bharat). As the COO, Ujjwal Batria will be responsible for company's operations of sales & marketing, logistics, manufacturing, manufacturing and technical services and logistics. Prior to his appointment as COO, Ujjwal Batria was the CEO of Lafarge India. Lafarge India has now been rechristened as Nuvoco Vistas Corp. In his career spaning over 33 years, Ujjwal Batria has held key leadership position in Cement division of Tata Steel, Cement divison of Century Textiles & Industries and Eicher Motors.
Of late, Dalmia Bharat has been on an acqusition spree. Under the bankruptcy code, Dalmia Bharat has acquired distressed cement assets - Murli Industries (3 MTPA) and Kalyanpur Cement (1 MTPA) and is recently in news for waging a bitter court battle with UltraCement for acquisiton of Binani Cement.
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