Construction Materials Production

The assets of BaselCement include Sastobe-Cement (Kazakhstan; cement, lime), Achinsk Cement (Krasnoyarsk Krai; cement), Uglov Lime Factory (Novgorod Oblast; lime), AST (North Ossetia-Alania; crushed stone), Khakassian Bentonite (Khakassia; bentonite mud powder).

In 2006-2007 BaselCement reconstructed and put into operation previously idle cement factories Achinsk Cement and Sastobe-Cement. Sastobe-Cement increased output at its one production line to 450,000 tons of cement per year. In 2008, Achinsk Cement will produce  840,000 tons of cement at its two production lines, and the third line will be reconstructed in 2009.  

BaselCement is currently reconstructing one existing plant and building one new cement plant in Ryazan and Novgorod Oblasts, as well as in Krasnodar Krai.  The first new cement factory of BaselCement - Serebryansk Cement Factory (Ryazan region, dry-mix process of cement production) - will be put into operation in late 2009 - early 2010.

In the second half of 2008 BaselCement announced several joint ventures with Russian Company "ITERA". The project provides for construction of new factories in the Urals and in several CIS countries.