Attock Cement and Best Way Cement companies each have announced to set up one another plant.

Attock Cement would set up the plant in Hub, an industrial area of Balochistan, with an estimated cost of US$60m. Its present producing capacity is 2400tpd, which was meeting the 25 per cent requirements of Sindh and Balochistan and 6 per cent of entire country.

The construction of a new plant, having producing capacity of 3300tpd, was started on Tuesday and it would start production in 2007. Best Way Cement has announced to set a plant in Chakwal with a cost of Rs. 7 billion with a producing capacity of 6000tpd.