OREANDA-NEWS. The Pikalevskiy Cement plant, part of EUROCEMENT group, shipped 89.5 thousand tons of high quality and environmentally friendly cement to consumers according to the results of its operations in February 2014, which is 1.6% (1,392 tons) more than in February 2013.

At the same time, bagged cement shipping amounted to 3,740 tons, which is 10.3% (349.25 tons) more than in February of the previous year. It's worth noting that right now, the plant bags the cement CEM II/A-S 32,5B in environmentally friendly three-layer 50kg paper bags, which are shipped on rail wagons and the clients' automotive transport.

Cement production in February of this year amounted to 89 thousand tons, which surpasses the metric of February 2013 by 218 tons.

The development of the plant's own mine has provided it with uninterrupted operations. In just two months of 2014, it mined more than 167.4 thousand tons of its own limestone. This metric is 26.7% higher than the volume obtained in the same period of the previous year.

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.