According to El-Khabar newspaper, Ayman ANIS, General Director Algerian Cement Company (ACC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), announced that the cement consumption in Algeria totaled 13Mt in 2005. Mr. Anis added that ACC satisfied 18 per cent of this cement consumption levels. The director estimates the domestic cement consumption to reach 15Mt by the end of 2006.