Siam Cement Group building new cement plant in Myanmar

Siam Cement Group (SCG) of Thailand is looking to set up a cement production facility in the province of Khammuan, Laos to meet demand from the Lao market that has increased to about 3.5 million tonnes annually.

The company has started a feasibility study for the project and is expected to spend at least THB 10 billion (€223.19 million/US$309.60 million) on the new facility.

The factory will be able to produce some 1.8 million tonnes of cement annually and is due to be commissioned from 2017.

The local community of Mon State, Myanmar, has raised concerns over the development of a US$400 million cement facility and an adjoining coal power plant in the state, it is reported.

Local Mawlamyine Cement (MCL), a joint venture of Pacific Link Cement Industries and Siam Cement Group (SCG), is developing that facility, which is due to be launched in the middle of 2016.

However, reports says that local residents claim that MCL has not provided information on the facility to villagers, who fear negati

The Education Ministry of Myanmar is joining hands with Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) to raise awareness of earthquake safety among school children in the country.

Under the tie-up, 5,000 sets of learning materials with an earthquake preparedness theme will be distributed to schools in Mawlamyine and Yangon.

Besides the distribution of the learning sets, which contain DVDs, posters, colour pencils and drawing books, SCG will hold seminars on earthquake-related topics with teachers at particip