FANCESA Cal Orck’o works to start production mid-2019

Bolivia’s Fábrica Nacional de Cemento (FANCESA) will finish all earthmoving works on the site of its new cement plant in Cal Orck’o  in two months’ time, according to the company. New equipment will start arriving in September with the line’s completion scheduled in 2019.

The earth movement stage was expected to take only four months but for undisclosed reasons there has been a four-month lag. However, FLSmidth, who was awarded the contract on 27 July 2016 has pledged to start equipment delivery within eight months of contract signing and this date, due in August, will be respected, said Edwin Orihuela, general manager of FANCESA’s Chuquisaca factory.

Mr Orihuela expects the line to start operation in mid-2019.