A fast-read primer on India's broader construction materials sector — the backdrop against which we benchmark every company's cost structure in this category.
The core industries index and cement production are both tracking the same upward infrastructure-led trend.
Feb 2025 → Feb 2026
FY25 → FY26 estimate
Government capex, rising investment, and structural growth in construction demand all reinforce this category.
A sample of the industry-wide and policy moves shaping the sector through early 2026.
Listed Indian Other Construction Materials companies in tDoBe's cost-benchmarking coverage.
The market facts above are public background. What follows is tDoBe's own work: every "Other Expenses" line from these companies' own financial records, read by hand and sorted into one clear set of categories — not a keyword search, not each company's own way of reporting it.
Each mark is one company's total Other Expenses as % of net revenue. No company is named here.
Ranked from biggest to smallest.
Miscellaneous & Others leads at 3.8% of revenue, with Freight, Distribution & Logistics (1.9%) and Repairs & Maintenance (1.1%) next — moving heavy building materials is a real cost here.
Five different businesses share this one sector code — fibre-cement and roofing, marble and granite, formwork systems, project and EPC services, and a building-materials marketplace platform. That mix, more than any efficiency gap, drives the 10.6x spread.
One company's revenue was too small, and its costs too dominated by a one-off accounting item, to include in a fair comparison — it's kept in the full workbook for reference, just not in the averages.
This is the free, sector-wide view. It tells you where Other Construction Materials stands as a whole — not where your own company stands against it, category by category, in rupees.
A below-average number is a reason to call too — the benchmark keeps improving as we go.