OREANDA-NEWS. EUROCEMENT group is continually modernizing its plants with the aim of increasing the quality of its produce, perfecting its delivery terms, reducing its energy consumption and improving its environmental friendliness.

In January 2014, new automotive equipment was delivered to Pikalevskiy Cement, with an overall value of around 7.8 million rubles, including a grader necessary for the construction, repair, cleaning, and outfitting of technological roads and the plant's industrial site; a mini loader designed for performing work in the confined spaces of the plant's shops; and a fork-lift loader for performing loading and unloading operations.

It's worth noting that in 2013, EUROCEMENT group invested more than 165 million rubles overall in Pikalevskiy Cement. A range of major projects were completed using these funds.

In July 2013, the plant brought a precipitator in furnace No.4 in the clinker burning department into operation, made by the Alstom Power Stavan firm (France - Switzerland). Now that work has been completed to replace the precipitator, atmospheric emissions correspond to the strictest European standards.

In October 2013, the main road on the cement truck transit path to the cement loading point at Pikalevskiy Cement was reconstructed. Three railroad crossings were constructed for the completion of the project, and the roadbed was replaced with a widened road and restored storm drainage. The project's main goal was the improvement of cement shipping terms for customers of the plant's produce.

In December 2013, the plant's internal power supply network was reconstructed at Pikalevskiy Cement. The work was carried out with the primary aim of increasing the reliability of the plant's electricity supply by completely replacing its electrical lines and increasing the efficiency of its technical equipment.

EUROCEMENT group, an international vertically integrated industrial holding company, is Russia's leading producer of building materials.

EUROCEMENT group is ranked among the world's top ten cement companies and brings together 16 cement plants in Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as the plant manufactures concrete, concrete goods, the open pits extracting aggregates and industrial construction enterprises.

The production capacity of the Holding Company entities is 40.0 million tonnes of cement and 10 million m3 of concrete. The reserves of aggregates related to carbonate rock extraction with the total actual reserves are more than 2.8 billion tonnes; the extraction of granite with reserves, about 1.8 billion tonnes.

In December 2012, EUROCEMENT group commissioned a new plant producing dry cement in the Voronezh Region, designed to produce 3 million tonnes of cement per year. Incidentally, the percentage of dry cement production went up from 13% to 25% of the annual output of the Holding Company.