Pakistan starts exporting low alkali cement to America DG Khan Cement Company, a part of United States. The cement being supplied to different products at the same time. It is from Nishat group has become the first Pak- the US is of a special kind called “low alkali ce- this plant that the company is exporting a istani company to export cement to the ment.” ship load of low alkali cement to the US. Farid Fazal, Executive Director of the com- pany has said that DG Khan Cement has successfully obtained an export order from a group in the US to supply 50,000 metric tons of cement every month for the next 12 months with a total 600,000 metric tons. “This figure could double if all goes well,” he added. The company has also got the techni- cal certifications from TXDOT, NCDOT, SCDOT and LODOT. Due to the strict environmental laws in the US it is very difficult to establish a ce- ment manufacturing plant in the US that is why their requirements of cement are met by imports mainly from Mexico, Canada, Vietnam and Turkey and now Pakistan has also become a part of this list. DG Khan Cement Company has produc- tion capacity of 7.5 million metric tons ce- ment per annum. The company has plants located at, Dera Ghazi Khan, Kalar Kahar and Hub. The plants are equipped with six stage pre-heater towers, vertical grinding mill based on COPE drive system, and mul- tiple chamber cement storage silos to store
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