El Salvador: Guatemala’s Cemento Regional has started building a 0.12Mt/yr grinding plant at Acajutla. The subsidiary of Grupo Monterrey has invested US$12m in the project, according to the El Economista newspaper. The plant is scheduled to be commissioned in December 2019. A ceremony marking the start of construction was attended by the president of the Export and Investment Promotion Agency of El Salvador (PROESA), Salvador Gómez Góchez and the president of Cemento Regional, Roberto Díaz Durán.
The new plant is situated near to the port at Acajutla, enabling it to import clinker and other raw materials from Asia. The plant will be built by Qualicons, a Guatemalan construction company. It was previously reported that Spain’s Cemengal would supply a modular mill for the plant.