OREANDA-NEWS. The Minister of Industry and Natural Resources of the Chelyabinsk region, Yegor Kovalchuk, visited Katavski Cement, part of EUROCEMENT group, as part of his official visit to the Katav- Ivanovsk municipal district.

The delegation also included the Head of the Industrial Department of the Regional Ministry of Industry and Natural Resources, Boris Bardin, the Deputy Head of the Organizational and Legal Department of the Ministry, Lyubov Fedotovskaya, the Head of the Kata-Ivanovsk municipal district, Evgeny Kirshin and his deputy Marina Katunkina.

Alexander Chalov, the General Director of Katavski Cement, and Sergey Gusarov, the Deputy General Director - Technical Director of the company showed their guests around the plant, demonstrated the operation of a modern electrostatic precipitator cutting the plant's dust emissions by nearly 25%. They stressed that EUROCEMENT group invested about 200 million rubles in the installation of this de-dusting system.

Katavski Cement is the largest cement producer in the Southern Urals. Its production capacity is 1.5 million tons of cement per year. The company produces four types of cement that meet all regulatory requirements which are intended for housing, infrastructure and industrial construction. They are shipped in bulk and in containers: in 50 kg three-layer paper bags and Big Bag 1000 kg soft containers. The company's products are well known and have a high reputation among construction companies in the Chelyabinsk, Kurgan and Orenburg regions, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan and other regions across Russia.

The Minister of Industry and Natural Resources of the Chelyabinsk region, Yegor Kovalchuk, praised the employees at Katavski Cement saying 'the company is one of the leaders of the cement industry in the Chelyabinsk region. The plant is successful, pays great attention to the quality of their products, social issues and the environment. Katavski Cement will be the driving force for Katav-Ivanovsk for a long time'.