Eurocement signs Uzbekistan supply contract

Eurocement has signed a US$128m contract with China CAMC Engineering, a unit of Sinomach, for the supply of equipment, as well as design, installation, and training for a new cement plant in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan, the group said in a statement Monday.

The plant will have a projected cement capacity of 2.4Mta and will be launched in 2016. It will be operated under Eurocement’s local Uzbek subsidiary, Akhangaran Cement.

In May, Eurocement Group signed a US$500m equipment supply contracts with units of China’s Sinoma, CNBM, and Sinomach groups under a programme to build dry-process cement plants with a total capacity of 17Mta in Russia’s Arkhangelsk, Bryansk, Leningrad, Ryazan, Samara, and Ulyanovsk regions.