Philippines: Eagle Cement has started construction of a US$246m cement plant in Malabuyoc, Cebu, as part of a wider expansion drive. The 2Mt/yr plant will have dedicated terminals for domestic transit of cement and export. It will take Eagle Cement’s capacity to 9.1Mt/yr once it and an expansion at the company’s Bulacan plant are completed. Cebu will come online in 2020, with the Bulacan expansion completed in 2018.
"We are expanding more to new markets such as Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao,” said Eagle’s President and CEO Paul Ang. “By 2018, our third line in Bulacan will be fully functional to serve those areas, with the most efficient and energy saving manufacturing technology.”