Link to the website HeidelbergCement in Kazakhstan
Overview
In November 2005, HeidelbergCement signed an agreement for the purchase of 100% of the shares in the Kazakh Bukhtarma Cement Company (BCC), one of the leading cement producers in Kazakhstan. BCC operates a cement plant in the northeast of Kazakhstan, 100 kilometres south of the town of Ust-Kamenogorsk. Bukhtarma Cement Company sells its production under "Vostok Cement" trade mark.
| Kazakhstan |
|---|
| Cement plants |
1 |
| Cement terminals |
7 |
| Aggregates |
3 |
| Ready-mixed concrete |
4 |
(Data as of 2012)
The market
The Bukhtarma cement plant supplies the whole Kazakh market via seven terminals. In 2011, we commenced construction of a new cement plant in Shetpe near Aktau, located on the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. The Caspi Cement plant will have an annual capacity of 0.8 million tonnes of cement and will predominantly supply the rapidly growing oil- and gas-rich region on the Caspian Sea. We aim to produce the first cement there by 2013.
In 2011, the construction sector reported particularly strong growth in Kazakhstan because of infrastructural projects. Cement deliveries were significantly above the previous year. We doubled our previous year’s sales volumes of ready-mixed concrete in Kazakhstan.