Central Asia Cement Plant
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Background
Under the USSR
The construction of the "Karaganda Cement Plant" started in 1947. The first technological line was launched on September 23, 1953 and the first ton of clinker was produced. The second line was launched in early November of the same year. The productivity of the two lines was 401.7 thousand tons of clinker and 446 thousand tons of cement. The third technological line was launched on December 1, 1956. The plant's production capacity was 670 thousand tons of cement per year. The fourth technological line was put into operation on November 16, 1958, as a result, the plant's capacity increased by 242 thousand tons per year and amounted to 914 thousand tons of cement.[1]
In 1971, the construction of a new cement plant using the dry method of production (two rotary kilns measuring 5.0 x 85 m) was approved, but a year later, the project was radically changed. Two kilns were replaced by more productive units—a kiln measuring 6.4 x 95 m. In 1971, the construction of a new technological line for cement production using the dry method started.
On March 5, 1975, the first dry method line in the USSR began operating. In 1976, the second technological line was launched in June 1983.
Independence
In the 1990s, during the privatization of state property, the enterprise was reorganized into a joint-stock company. During the economic crisis in post-Soviet countries, the demand for cement drastically decreased, and production halted.
Foreign investors bought the plant and renamed it Central Asia Cement in 1998. One of four wet-method production lines restarted production the same year, and the remaining three lines restarted production the following years by 2002.
The two dry-method production lines were restored and launched in 2009 and 2014 respectively. These two lines were separated into a different enterprise, Karcement JSC.
With increasing competition in the cement market and the replacement of the wet cement production method with a more efficient dry production method, clinker production by the wet production method was stopped in October 2014.
In 2014, wet-method production of clinker ceased.[2]
- ↑ cac.kz https://cac.kz/history. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
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