Renovation of Chhatak Cement begins next month
Sunday, 27 September 2009
SYLHET, Sept 26 (BSS): The renovation of Chhatak cement factory will begin next month at a cost of Tk 50 million (5.0 crore) to expedite production.
The renovation work will include replacement of ropeway and repairing of ropeway trestle and the eight-megawatt turbine power plant.
Sources said the limestone used in the Chhatak cement factory is imported from India though a ropeway. This ropeway has become dilapidated needs renovation.
The renovation will begin in the first or second week of October and likely to be completed in 20 to 22 days, said Acting Managing Director Nazmul Haq.
He said the Chhatak Cement Company Limited was established in 1937. Then its name was Assam Bengal Cement Company. It came under Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) on July 1, 1982.
The Chhatak cement factory is a complete cement manufacturing factory, which uses Indian limestone, a particular kind of clay of Chhatak, TSP complex, and gypsum collected from Chittagong.
The annual production capacity of the factory was 60,000 tonnes till 1941. The production capacity increased to 0.12 million (1.25 lakh) tonnes in 1987. The present production capacity of the factory is now 0.23 million (2.33 lakh) tonnes.
Presently, 75 per cent of the total production capacity of Chhatak cement factory is being utilised.
The total production in Chhatak cement factory was about 0.18 million (1.8 lakh) tonnes in 2007-08 and 0.14 million (1.40 lakh) tonnes in 2008-09.
The production target for 2009-10 is 0.14 million (1.40 lakh) tonnes.
Sources said the factory's annual demand for limestone is 0.17 million (1.75 lakh) tonnes, of which 0.13 million (1.30 lakh) tonnes are imported from India.
The renovation work will include replacement of ropeway and repairing of ropeway trestle and the eight-megawatt turbine power plant.
Sources said the limestone used in the Chhatak cement factory is imported from India though a ropeway. This ropeway has become dilapidated needs renovation.
The renovation will begin in the first or second week of October and likely to be completed in 20 to 22 days, said Acting Managing Director Nazmul Haq.
He said the Chhatak Cement Company Limited was established in 1937. Then its name was Assam Bengal Cement Company. It came under Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) on July 1, 1982.
The Chhatak cement factory is a complete cement manufacturing factory, which uses Indian limestone, a particular kind of clay of Chhatak, TSP complex, and gypsum collected from Chittagong.
The annual production capacity of the factory was 60,000 tonnes till 1941. The production capacity increased to 0.12 million (1.25 lakh) tonnes in 1987. The present production capacity of the factory is now 0.23 million (2.33 lakh) tonnes.
Presently, 75 per cent of the total production capacity of Chhatak cement factory is being utilised.
The total production in Chhatak cement factory was about 0.18 million (1.8 lakh) tonnes in 2007-08 and 0.14 million (1.40 lakh) tonnes in 2008-09.
The production target for 2009-10 is 0.14 million (1.40 lakh) tonnes.
Sources said the factory's annual demand for limestone is 0.17 million (1.75 lakh) tonnes, of which 0.13 million (1.30 lakh) tonnes are imported from India.