SOBOCE to invest further in El Puente

Bolivia’s Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento SA (SOBOCE) is expanding the production capacity at its El Puente cement plant to meet the current and future cement demand in Tarija.

The modernisation of the works represents an investment of BOB49m (US$7.1m) to date and started with the installation of a new crusher, pre homogenisation, raw material storage and transport as well as a new 10MW electrical substation.

The cement producer will invest a further BOB25m in new bagging and dispatch systems.

In the 21 years the plant has been managed by SOBOCE, the company has invested more than BOB280m. Key projects included the expansion of clinker capacity and grinding capacity at El Puente and the installation of a premixed concrete plant.