OREANDA-NEWS. February 10, 2010. Production results of ZAO Mikhailovcement for 12 months evidence that the production stabilization program developed in early 2009 and aimed at reaching the project capacity has been successful. This allowed the enterprise during the year to increase clinker yield and cement shipments.

Since the beginning of 2009 the enterprise has shipped nearly 982 thousand ton of cement and manufactured about 900 thousand ton of clinker. In September the enterprise staff exceeded the clinker production schedule by 2 thousand ton.

Moreover a package of measures taken at ZAO Mikhailovcement made it possible to avoid unscheduled downtime and reduced ineffective costs.

The measures that were taken at ZAO Mikhailovcement for 12 months included complete overhaul of all technological equipment, updating of acting capacities, improving of quality of the products.

This year the enterprise will continue embodying a complex production stabilization program. About 400 mln RUR of the budget was set aside to that purpose that is three times as much as last year.

This money will be primarily spent to replace worn out and outdated equipment. For instance, the main actuator of cement mill No. 4 will be replaced that will increase product yield of this mill by 10%. All in all the production stabilization program of ZAO Mikhailovcement includes over 100 items.