Algeria looks to cement self-sufficiency with new production plant
With a growing construction industry and government’s increased investment in capital projects, Algeria is looking to increase cement production to meet this growing demand. It is against this backdrop that a second production unit of cement plant of Ain El Kebira (SCAEK) has been commissioned coming under the Algerian public industrial cement group (GICA).
According to the Ministry of Industry and Mining, this unit, which has a production capacity of 2 million tonnes per year, will allow Algeria to reach the stage of self-sufficiency in cement.
The Industry minister Abdesslam Bouchouareb announced that Adrar cement plant (1.5 million tonnes per year) is due to be commissioned by April 2017, and that of Chlef (2 million tonnes/year) by October.
"Thus, the national cement production will increase by 5.5 million tonnes/year," he said, adding that Algeria would be able to export the surplus by early 2018.
