OREANDA-NEWS. Lipetskcement, part of EUROCEMENT group, following the results of its operations in January 2014, has continued its trend of steady growth in its primary production indicators. In the first month of the year, the plant produced 105.5 thousand tons of clinker (raw material for cement production) and 37.5 thousand tons of cement, which represents an increase of 46% (33 thousand tons) and 13,7% (4,5 thousand tons) respectively over the production indicators of January 2013.

At the same time, the production of the cements CEM II/A S 32,5N and CEM I 32,5N increased by 28.5% and 16% respectively. These cements are designed for concrete and cement making, and also for in-situ concrete for massive concrete structures.

In January 2014, bagged cement production (in three-layer 25kg and 50kg paper bags) increased by 40.3% At Lipetskcement, 1,061 tons of packaged cement were produced, which is 304 tons more than the indicator of the equivalent period of the previous year.

EUROCEMENT Group Holding Information Summary

EUROCEMENT group, an international vertically integrated industrial holding company, is Russia's leading producer of building materials.

EUROCEMENT group is ranked among the world's top ten cement companies and brings together 16 cement plants in Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as the plant manufactures concrete, concrete goods, the open pits extracting aggregates and industrial construction enterprises.

The production capacity of the Holding Company entities is 40.0 million tonnes of cement and 10 million m3 of concrete. The reserves of aggregates related to carbonate rock extraction with the total actual reserves are more than 2.8 billion tonnes; the extraction of granite with reserves, about 1.8 billion tonnes.

In December 2012, EUROCEMENT group commissioned a new plant producing dry cement in the Voronezh Region, designed to produce 3 million tonnes of cement per year. Incidentally, the percentage of dry cement production went up from 13% to 25% of the annual output of the Holding Company.