Construction of the new plant would being this year and is expected to be completed within three years, Pavel Cansino Avila, Deputy Director of the Cement Business Group, told Cuban News Agency. Production capacity would be around 1 million tpy of clinker.
In addition to the new plant, two existing plants will be updated this year, as part of programme to modernize the country’s cement plants. The Cuban cement industry failed to meet its target in 2017, fulfilling only 92% of a planned production of 1.573 million t.
