In the second half of July, international company HeidelbergCement, which is among the biggest building materials manufacturers in the world, opened a new cement factory in Tula. The plant, situated some 150 kilometers to the South of Moscow in the town of Novogurovsky, will have the production capacity of two million metric tons of cement per year. The initial stage of the plant’s construction began in April of 2009. The plant will employ 400 people, and its investment volume reached EUR 300 million. In the near future, the plant will become one of the biggest in Russia.        

Cement will be manufactured with the use of a dry process at the plant. The degree of automation of the various stages of production at the plant is high, and the plant utilizes only ecologically-sound mechanisms.

The German cement producer has been working on the Russian market since 2001. The company now operates one cement plant close to St. Petersburg. The company also has a controlling stake in a construction supplies manufacturing enterprise based in Bashkortostan. The company also has facilities in the Voronezh and the Tula regions, where construction equipment is produced.