OREANDA-NEWS. November 23, 2011. LSR Group (LSE: LSRG; MICEX, RTS: LSRG), operating one of the most advanced production facilities in the world, starts to sell cement to other construction companies (until now the cement was consumed internally), reported the press-centre of LSR Group.
 
LSR Group's plant uses the most efficient “dry” technology and manufactures bulk and packed cement: CEM I 42.5N, CEM I 32.5N and CEM II/A-SH 32.5N. The cement is certified in accordance with All-Union State Standard (GOST) 31108-2003 and meets highest ecological requirements.  The product is delivered by trucks, railway or customer pickup.
 
The plant, located in Slantsy (Leningrad region) and with annual capacity of 1.86 m tons, was launched at the end of 2010. In 2011 the plant completed commissioning operations, manufactured and tested clinker and cement, obtained all the necessary certificates.
 
The first batches were tested at LSR Group’s reinforced concrete and ready-mix concrete business units. Based on the results that proved high quality of the cement, the company decided to launch it on the market under the trade mark – LSR-CEMENT.
 
Quality control at LSR plant is a high-priority task – it has its own research laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment.  The plant’s integrated automated system and robotic equipment enable continuing control quality of the raw material, clinker and cement.
 
The plant is one of the most environment-friendly and energy-efficient cement plants in the world: it uses alternative fuel and utilizes excess heat from the kiln providing more than 40% of the energy required for the production lines operation. Besides, the plant has strict emission limits which fully comply with the highest European environmental standards.

Yaroslav Stoupa, project director of LSR-Cement, comments:
“Our first consumers were subsidiaries of LSR Group - a company with almost 20-year expertise in construction and production of building materials and first-hand experience in the use of cement. We are confident with the quality of our cement because we manufacture it for ourselves as well: around 1 million tons of cement will cover internal demand of LSR Group, one of the Russia’s largest cement consumers”.