India Cements Limited is a subsidiary of UltraTech Cement Limited. UltraTech is the cement flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group and is the largest manufacturer of grey cement and ready mix concrete (RMC) and one of the largest manufacturers of white cement in India. India Cements was acquired by UltraTech on December 24, 2024.

India Cements Ltd was founded in the year 1946 by Shri S N N Sankaralinga Iyer and Shri T S Narayanaswami. The company set up its first cement plant in 1949 at Sankarnagar located in Talaiyuthu, a tiny hamlet in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu.

India Cements was among the first companies to become a public limited company during the post-independence era. The Company is currently listed at NSE and BSE.

From a two-plant company having a capacity of just 1.3 million tonnes in 1989, India Cements has grown robustly to a total current cement production capacity of 14.45 million tonnes per annum. India Cements has eight integrated cement plants in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, and one grinding unit in Tamil Nadu.