Sand Mining Ban : Builders turn to Ferroc for construction needs

City Builders and contractors are looking for cost-effective alternatives in wake of the Bombay High Court's directive to the State government, that the latter should not award any contract for sand-mining or allow further excavation unless the agency concerned obtains an environmental clearance.

While industry players feel the HC direction might disturb the demand- supply equations of the sand for construction activities in the city, builders and contractors are looking at alternatives options to keep their trade on track.

Sumer Group of companies which is into real- estate and construction has already switched to equally cost efficient Cement Plaster like Ferroc. Deepak Shah, Managing Director, Sumer Infrastructure Private Limited, said, " Our group company Sumer Infrastructure deals in the Ferroc Plaster and it is the best replacement for Site Mixed Cement: Sand Plaster . The prices of Ferroc Plaster don't fluctuate as much as that of sand and hence, our projects are not exposed to the price volatility." Sumer Infrastructure that deals in Ferroc Plaster is registering an increasing interest of builders and contractors in Ferroc. " We have started using this material and it yields very good result. The interest of builders and contractors who work on value based projects and working in the tighter deadlines to complete the projects will benefit from Ferroc. With the anticipation of increase in sand prices, we are getting more inquiries on Ferroc," said, Deepak Shah, Managing Director, Sumer Infrastructure Private Limited.

" We have used and applied Ferroc cement plaster based on the artificial sand and found the result to be satisfactory. We observed the applied plaster for 18 months and found the plaster to be crack free and durable," said, Ajit Bhogavkar, Project Manager, Shapoorji Pallonji & co Ltd.

Ferroc is an eco- friendly, fiber reinforced cement plaster mortar formulated using state- of- the- art additives for superior quality internal and external plastering work. Ferroc is accurate and consistent quality of plaster for external and internal plaster as it is factory mixed mortar for uniform results.