About company
JSC "Central Asia Cement""Karaganda cement plant" (c 1998 - JSC "Central Asia Cement", whose shareholders are Malaysian entrepreneurs) - one of the oldest enterprises of the cement industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The decision to build a cement plant with capacity of 45-60 thousand. Tonnes of cement per year in the city of Karaganda was taken July 25, 1933 the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR and a ruling №1291. In the autumn of 1933 a commission composed of the designers' TsementProekt "Institute, representatives of local organizations, area for construction of the plant has been selected. In parallel went designing cement line, and even a project for the production of 45 thousand. Tonnes of cement was approved in the year, these were the cement production scale of those years. However, the conditions of the selected site for the construction were unfavorable, the area fell into the flood zone by flood water. Because of this construction was not started. In mid-1936 it was carried out selection of a new site and have already proposed a draft of the cement line capacity 96 ths. Tons.
For several reasons, this project was not implemented. In 1939 the specialists of the Institute formed "Giprotsement" proposed a new draft "of the Karaganda cement plant" capacity of 100 thous. Tons. In the same year it was started preparatory work, which then, in connection with the beginning of World War II, have been suspended, and the construction of mothballed. In April 1946, the Ministry of Industry and building materials "Giprotsement" was again asked to design the cement plant.
In September 1946 the technical design of the plant to produce 300 thousand. Tonnes of cement per year was approved. The project included "Croup-grusonia" two production lines based on the equipment of the German company. Construction of the existing "Karaganda cement plant" was launched in June 1946.
The first technological line launched September 23, 1953 and the first ton of clinker was produced. The second line was launched in early November of the same year. Performance of the two lines was 401.7 thousand. Tons of clinker and 446 ths. Tons of cement. The third production line launched 1st December 1956. The production capacity amounted to 670 ths. Tons of cement per year. The fourth production line was put into service November 16, 1958, as a result of the plant capacity increased to 242 ths. Tons per year and amounted to 914 thousand. Tons of cement. In 1969, it was approved by the job on the construction of a new cement plant on the dry method of production (two 5,0h85m rotary kiln), but a year later the project radically changed, two ovens were replaced by more productive units - furnace size 6,4h95 m in 1971.
The construction of a new cement production line process was started by the dry method. And 5 March 1975 launched the first in the USSR pilot production line for dry process cement production. In 1976 he began construction of a second technological line of cement production by dry method, and was launched in June 1983. In 90 years at the state property privatization, the company was reorganized into a joint stock company, in this period there was a repeated change of shareholders of the plant. During the economic crisis of the post-Soviet countries, the demand for cement decreased so that the production of cement was critically unprofitable, and production was halted.
Most of the cement imported to meet the demand. In 1998, a majority stake was bought by Malaysian entrepreneurs and the company was renamed "Central Asia Cement".
