North Korea: State-owned press has announced that the Sunchon Cement Complex in North Korea produced ‘hundreds of thousands of tonnes more cement than planned’ in 2025, although it did not provide exact figures. It also reported that the plant’s limestone quarry built its own maintenance base and secured enough accessories and spare parts for normal operation of excavators, thus boosting production.
Miners at the Jikdong Gypsum Mine and the Stathe Clay Mine were reported to have ‘made innovations in production by increasing the operation rate of mining equipment’ and ‘shortening the turnaround time of wagons.’ The workers in the pyroprocessing section were reported to have ‘overfulfilled their daily clinker production plan’ by applying a ‘rational method of kiln operation during winter weather conditions.’
