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Lucky Cement’s Iraq facility starts production
Business March 12, 2021
KARACHI: Lucky Cement’s greenfield production facility in Samawah, Iraq with a capacity of 1.2 million tons/annum commenced its commercial operations with effect from March 10, 2021, a bourse filing said on Thursday.
The facility is a joint venture between Lucky Cement and Al-Shamookh group of Iraq.
Consequent to this addition, Lucky Cement’s overseas cement capacity now stands at 4.12MTPA, including cement grinding plant in Basra, Iraq (1.74MTPA); fully integrated cement plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1.18MTPA) and a fully-integrated cement plant in Samawah, Iraq having the capacity of 1.20MTPA.