Production of building materials

BaselCement produces cement, crushed stone, lime, bentonite clay powder.

Existing production capacity is 1.8 million tonnes of cement, 540,000 tonnes of lime, 250,000 tonnes of alumina and 60,000 tonnes of bentonite clay powder. The company is carrying out a program to build new enterprises in order to increase output of these materials substantially. It also plans to put new types of construction material into production and to increase its market share.

BaselCement's key assets are: Achinsk Cement (Krasnoyarsk territory), Serebryansky Cement Works (Ryazan region), Uglov Lime Factory (Novgorod region), AST (North Ossetia-Alania; crushed stone), SAM (Arkhangelsk region; crushed stone), Khakassian Bentonite (Khakassia; bentonite clay powder), BaselCement Pikalyovo (Leningrad region; alumina), SKGK (Krasnodar territory; crushed stone) and Sastobe-Cement (Kazakhstan; cement, lime).

Serebryansky Cement Works, which is being built in the Ryazan region, will be Russia's first new cement works for 20 years to use the eco-friendly dry cement production method. BaselCement plans to commission the plant in 2010.

BaselCement has already hired China's Zhenjiang Construction Group Co. Ltd as general contractor and China's Sinoma as equipment supplier for the Serebryansky plant, and said in 2009 that it was prepared to attract Chinese investment for the construction of cement works in the Tuapse district of the Krasnodar territory and in the Novgorod region.

MosPromStroyMaterialy is one of Russia's biggest producers of construction materials, constructions and other products for residential and public buildings and transport infrastructure.

The company has a number of factories in the Moscow and Kirov regions and Krasnodar territory, and a range of more than 18,000 products, including reinforced concrete, timber, dry mixes, chemicals, non-ore materials and others.

The company has supplied significant quantities of materials for facilities like the Luzhniki sports complex, International Trade Center, Moscow Mayor's Office on Freedom Square, Ostankino TV Center, Victory Memorial on Poklonnaya Gora, Manezh Square trade center and Third Transport Ring, all of them in Moscow.