Brief history of the plant
The Odessa Cement Plant has started its production on the year of 1965.
It was built to meet the local demand for cement as the region was far away from the country’s most industrialized regions, therefore having a limited production capacity.
On the 8th of September of 1965 rotary kiln № 1 was put into operation, and in November 1966 rotary kiln № 2 started its production. In that year, the cement production was of 165,5 thousand tones.
The factory kept on increasing the production capacities and the rated capacity of cement production of 320 thousand tones was reached in 1971.
Originally, the raw materials deposit – limestone and clay – was situated 2 km away from the factory.
The Elizavetovskiy quarry for cement raw materials was developed in 1973, located 40 km from the factory, to where the mining equipment was relocated. A private railway line from Kariernaya station was put into operation in 1986 which allowed that the raw materials could be transported by railway. The mined-land re-cultivation and the farmland conditioning were made after deposits depletion.
The erection in 1976 of a slag drying section with bulk storage permitted the launch of the production of a new type of cement – sulphate-resistant slag portland cement - and at the same time the raise of the factory output to 360 thousand tons.
In May of 2005 the plant was acquired by a Portuguese company (C+PA, Cimento e Produtos Associados, S.A.) whose shareholders are CIMPOR Cimentos de Portugal S.A. (one of the world’s leading cement manufacturers) and Teixeira Duarte, Engenharia e Construções (a leading Portuguese contractor, among other relevant activities).
Since that moment the Odessa Cement Plant, which is known in the Ukrainian cement market by the brand “ЦЕМЕНТ”, has undergone a set of investments foreseen to improve the company’s position in terms of:
- Environmental performance (new filters in all critical parts of the process, including clinker kiln);
