Heidelberg plans kiln investment

China's Tianjin Cement Industry Design & Research had completed all engineering design works for the cement production line of HeidelbergCement's plant in Tula, Russia, which will be put into trial operations in May 2011. Costing €275 million, the plant will have a daily clinker capacity of 5,000tonnes. Meanwhile, the German group's Cesla cement plant in the Leningrad region of north-west Russia, is planning to expand its cement production capacities from 400,000tonnes to 1.2 million tonnes a year following

Baselcement-Pikalevo has announced that it has started to extract limestone from a new quarry near Leningrad in Russia. The new site at Zapadny will produce more than 800,000 tonnes of limestone a year when in full operation following opening of the second phase in 2011. The €10.6million investment will help the company meet demand for limestone from its alumina oxide facility. Baselcement is also working on developing a new quarry at Vostochny which would add 25million tonnes of limestone reserves.