KSA’s Eastern Cement plans $22mn mill
Facility will have a proposed capacity of 150 tons an hour
Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province Cement Co has said it will set up a new cement mill at a total cost of $21.86 million.
It will have a production capacity of 150 tons an hour, officials from the company have said. The cement manufacturer specialises in producing OPC and SRC Cement.
The cement producer said that the new expansion will have a positive impact on its sales, starting from the second quarter of 2014. The project is expected to be completed in 14 months.
Eastern Cement said it has chosen a contractor to implement the project, which will enable it to tap to the maximum its clinker production capacity. It didn’t name the contractor, in a statement posted on the Saudi bourse website.
The company already owns one of the major cement Plant in Saudi Arabia with a capacity of 12000 Tonnes a day Cement production. Cement is grounded by four cement mills with 12,000 tons/day capacity, stored in five Silos.
Cement is dispatched in bulk bags and in jumbo bags. Bulk cement can be loaded directly from the cement Silos to cement bulkers. Bagging, loading and stacking are done by automatic machines, enabling dispatching to be faster and more economical.
Recent cement shortages in Yanbu have seen trucks queuing for up to five days due to shortages of cement in the kingdom.
