Baku, Azerbaijan, June 10
By Anvar Mammadov - Trend:
The largest cement plant in South Caucasus, Norm Sement plans to start cement production for oil wells in 2016, Hasan Yalcinkaya, CEO of the company said at the briefing June 10.
He said this is a very sought-after product in Azerbaijan, and with starting its production, cement import to the country will decrease.
"Today, the import of cement products to Azerbaijan is gradually decreasing and the share of the imported cement is only 5 percent of the total market volume, while the share of clinker is 10 percent," he said.
Yalcinkaya said the company is also preparing to export its products to the Caspian Sea countries. "Currently, we are considering the opportunities for exporting our products to Russia's south regions, as well as to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan."
Norm Sement plant is located in the Garadagh district of Baku. Its capacity is 5,000 metric tons of clinker per day and 2 million metric tons of cement per year.
The plant produced 540,000 metric tons of cement in 2014, while the clinker production totaled 471,000 metric tons. The country's domestic demand for cement was 4.4 million metric tons in 2014.
Edited by CN
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