OREANDA-NEWS. The parties discussed development prospects and key steps to further modernize Maltsovsky Portlandcement, a part of EUROCEMENT group. At the meeting it was noted that Maltsovsky Portlandcement is the largest cement plant in the Central Federal District. In 2013 the company produced more than 3.6 million tons of cement, which was 17 % more than in 2012.

The company's products are well known and have a high reputation among construction companies not only in the Bryansk region, but also in Moscow, the Moscow, Kaluga, Smolensk, Orel and other regions across Russia. In 2013 68 % of the cement shipped to various construction sites in the Moscow region was from Maltsovsky Portlandcement, therefore it became the largest supplier on the Moscow market.

'The region is interested in further development of the company in order to ensure that industrial, housing and infrastructure construction projects have high-quality cement," - said the Governor of the Bryansk region, Nikolai Denin.

'EUROCEMENT group constantly upgrades its plants to improve product quality, reduce energy consumption and protect the environment. Since 2010 the company has received more than 400 million rubles in investments. In particular, it installed new bag filters and precipitators on rotary kilns, allowing plant emissions to meet the most stringent European standards", -said President of the EUROCEMENT group, Mikhail Skorokhod at the meeting.

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.