KARACHI: Lucky Cement Limited on Thursday announced it has commenced commercial operation of cement production facility in Iraq.
In a communication, the company said that the Greenfield cement production facility in Samawah, Iraq with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per annum has successfully commenced its commercial operations with effect from March 10, 2021.
The cement production facility is a joint venture with Al-Shamookh group of Iraq.
The company further said that consequent to the addition, its overseas cement capacity increased at 4.12 million tons per annum.
Details of the overseas production facility are as follow:
– Cement Grinding Plant in Basra, Iraq: 1.74 MTPA
– Fully integrated cement plant in democratic republic of Congo: 1.18 MPTA
– Fully integrated cement plant in Samawah, Iraq: 1.2 MPTA
