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Russia: Igor Nikolenko has been appointed as the new general director of EuroCement's CJSC Kavkazcement. Igor Nikolenko was born in Belgorod in 1965. He graduated from Belgorod Technological Institute of Building Materials in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 and then worked in the Belgorod cement plant.

Kavkazcement is one of the largest cement plants in southern Russia with a production capacity of 3.1Mt/yr. The raw material base is limestone from the Ust-Dzhegutinsky mine and clay from Karachay-Cherkessia. The company became part of EuroCement in 2004.

Russia/China: Anhui Conch Cement plans to build a 2Mt/yr capacity cement plant in Ulyanovsk, Volga for Euro274m.

Russia: Under instructions from the Rosprirodnadzor environmental watchdog, Lipetskcement has started to install electrostatic precipitators to prevent the pollution of air with cement dust. The precipitators are mounted on the third production line's kiln. Cement dust emissions were registered at the plant during the start-up and commissioning of the plant. As such, it received new instructions to strengthen environmental controls with laboratory measurements of air quality.

Russia: HeidelbergCement has won the right to develop a 37.5km² plot at the Novo-Shikhanskaya area in Volga. According to the Geolnerud Central Research Institute, the limestone resources for the cement industry in the area amount to 168Mt. The contract costs Euro14,284 with an initial payment of Euro11,644. The license in valid for 25 years.

Russia: BaselCement produced 1Mt of cement and clinker in the first half of 2015, 4% more than in the same period of 2014, according to Interfax.

"Significant growth in production was achieved at Serebryansk Cement Plant. The enterprise produced almost 650,000t of cement in the first half of 2015. Shipments to the construction market in Moscow and Moscow region rose by 15% year-on-year. The plant's share of the Moscow region's cement market rose to 9%," said BaselCement in a press release.

Achinsk Cement shipped 64,000t of cement to customers in the Siberian Federal District in the first half of 2015, double the amount in the same period of 2014. "This was the result of the Euro2.56m investment project aimed at increasing capacity to produce the given grades," said BaselCement. The Siberian enterprise also increased shipments of commercial clinker by more than 150% on higher demand. Its share of the construction materials market in the Siberian FD was about 10%.

Russia: Eurocement Group has launched a 1.3Mt/yr dry-process cement plant in the Ulyanovsk Region's town of Sengiley. The plant will produce cement using a dry process at an investment cost of US$282m. Local press stated that the plant will create about 500 direct jobs and 1000 further indirect jobs.

Russia: According to SKRIN Newswire, an important period of the Mordovcement plant integration to Eurocement Group's logistics is currently being completed. Eurocement bought the Mordovcement plant in December 2014.

Mikhail Skorokhod, the president of Eurocement and Vladimir Volkov, the head of the republic of Mordovia, held a working meeting in the Administration of the Republic, where they discussed prospects of development of Mordovcement plant. The main topics were the business strategy of Mordovcement and contribution of the production facility to social and economic development of the Republic.

"Mordovcement has an important position in the construction industry of the country. It is one of the leading cement suppliers in the Russian construction materials market," said Vladimir Volkov. "This is why the plant is of strategic importance for our republic. It is crucial for us to know how Eurocement will develop the plant and we are ready for active cooperation on these issues. The most important is to load the production facility with maximum efficient orders and to respond promptly to changing needs of the construction market. For us, it is matter of principle to preserve the huge working team of Mordovcement and assure stable salary increases at the plant."

"From the moment of Mordovcement's inclusion in Eurocement, a large project aimed at increasing operational efficiency has been undertaken. All issues of Mordovcement debts have been solved, refurbishment and major repair of main equipment of the production facility have been made," said Skorokhod. "Today Eurocement executes complex measures to reduce the specific consumption of fuel and gas and increase equipment capacity."

Russia: According to SKRIN Newswire, the president of Eurocement Mikhail Skorokhod has announced introduced the new general director of the Kavkazcement plant as Georgy Kuznetsov.

"Kuznetsov's has more than 30 years of experience," said Skorokhod. "He has held executive positions in the administration of the Ministry of Taxes and Assessments of the Russian Federation and in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. He has worked for Eurocement since March 2014 as the deputy head of the department of economic security."

Kuznetsov thanked Eurocement management for their vested confidence. "Kavkazcement has a very united and highly professional team, which is able to fulfil any task," said Kuznetsov. "I promise to use all my experience and skills to maximum effect to achieve all targets set for the plant and to justify the confidence vested to me."

The 3Mt/yr Kavkazcement plant is currently being built to meet expected demand growth. "The market of the south is growing and Kavkazcement has very good prospects to increase the volume of products shipping and improve production figures," said Skorokhod. "The plant will become one of the most advanced enterprises in the region, meeting the highest world requirements by the quality of its equipment, production efficiency and environmental friendliness. Moreover, construction of a new modern highly efficient cement plant in the territory of the Karachayevo-Cherkessian Republic will promote active social and economical development of the region and provide the construction industry of the republic and adjacent regions with high-quality cement," said Skorokhod.

The contract for the plant construction was signed between Eurocement and China's Sinoma International Engineering Company on 9 November 2014 within the framework of the XXII APEC Summit held in Beijing. Sinoma International Engineering Company will supply a complete package of equipment and design, supervision of erection and personnel training for the new plant.

Russia: According to SKRIN Newswire, in the first five months of 2015, Eurocement's Pikalevskiy cement plant shipped 11,700t of bagged cement to its customers, which is 23% more than in the same period of 2014.

Russia: According to SKRIN Newswire, on 30 June 2015, Verkhnebakanskiy Cement Works appointed FBK OOO as its auditor for 2015 and decided not to pay common dividends for 2014. A new board was elected, which included Igor Veremiy, Anatoliy Ziskel, Oleg Ivashchenko, Lev Kvetnoy and Yefim Starikov. Popova Galina was elected as the controller. On 1 July 2015, the board elected Lev Kvetnoy as its chairman.