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Paraguay: President Horacio Cartes met with the head of the country's cement company Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC) and executives from Holcim and KBR Group on 23 October 2014. The meeting was arranged to discuss a new 4000t/day cement production line for INC at its Puerto Vallermi Plant capable of meeting a production rate of 90,000 bags/day. Cartes has also met with executives from Paolini Hnos and Loma Negra. Construction of the new line is intended to start in 2015.

Paraguay: The Paraguayan Congress is set to approve a US$67m loan to state-owned cement producer Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC) to resume investment in its Villeta and Vallemi cement plants. The funding will allow INC to continue its US$25.7m contract with FLSmidth to convert its fuel from fuel oil to coke as well as its US$6.3m contract with Claudius Peters, according to Esmerk news service. Other contracts are with Haver & Boecker, for US$7m to install two bagging facilities, and with Daca to optimise an agricultural lime plant, which is suspended due to legal issues, for US$5.9m. Overall, the investments that will be made with the loan will save INC US$30m/yr.