Belarus: Russia's Eurocement Group is ready to invest US$70 – 80m in a project to upgrade cement production facilities in Belarus, according to the minister of Architecture and Construction, Anatoly Chernyi.
"Eurocement offered to help us to switch the cement production plants from the wet process of cement production to the dry process," said Chernyi. Further negotiations will be held between the participants of the project to upgrade the facilities by 2017. The government has already approved the plans. The minister stressed that the wet process of cement production is energy consuming and costly.
The current combined capacity of the Belarusian cement plants is 9.5Mt/yr of cement, of which 5.4Mt is produced by dry kilns.