In Azuara has opened a cement factory, which reactivates something our area.
Start white cement production in Aragon with an investment of 46.5 million
M. LLORENTE. ZARAGOZA 28/04/2011 at 06:00
Azuara plant currently only gray cement manufacture. The white and furnaces will have to wait a few years.
A very pure white limestone. That is the starting point or the raw material White Cement Aragon (CBA) , yesterday inaugurated a plant with a Azuara initial investment of 46.5 million that the Portland cement manufacture only time since the target will be for a third phase (probably from 2016 to 2018) to require another line specific production costs 46.8 million, for what he hoped to revive demand and find funding. also be deferred until 2013-2015 implementing the second phase, the line of ovens, budgeted at 56.7 million, which will produce gray clinker here granulated product obtained by calcining limestone and clay at temperatures between 1,350 and 1,450 º C-no need to import it as far from Turkey.
abrupt halt crisis
"We are missing two thirds of the project to do," he acknowledged Mantecón Elijah, president of CBA , while Jaime Raventos, chairman of the board of directors of the cement , explained that "Logically, the crisis has slowed, if not been for the adverse economic situation, instead of opening a portion of the plant, would be premiering the entire plant, but when we started was in 2006 and did not think the building would fall . Now we have to think that restart. "
Currently, CBA has created 25 jobs direct, but have yet to incorporate two or three people, and about 20 indirect, according to its CEO, Elias Mantecón. The intention in the long run, when the second and third stages are performed, is to get to 135 direct jobs and 100 indirect. However, the domino effect that has created the launch of the cement in Azuara and the surrounding villages and is felt, according to Joaquín Gimeno Mayor Fuendetodos , explaining that restaurants, hostel and hotels in the city are taking CBA and work through the road being built to the plant also has several neighbors occupation.
"The driver of White Cement was the Aragon-Bercontres Hormipresa Catalan group that was dedicated as the issue of quarrying and micronized. They started with the idea and joined Jaime Raventós PRAINSA group and Mariano López Navarro (MLN) "said Jose Royo, CEO of the latter group mainly dedicated to Aragon construction. It was the combined efforts of these three partners with equity and a loan of 30 million, which has managed to implement CBA. A company that was established in 2005 and took a contest permit mining and resources research in the area requested by Dimar Azuara (firm that was acquired by CBA), to discover large reserves of high quality limestone, suitable for manufacturing gray and white cement. Following the discovery, "both companies Jaime Aragon Raventós the group and Hormipresa-Bercontres MLN, Catalonia, the three major consumers of cement, we decided we had to produce our own cement and thus was born the idea that has now materialized" , said Joseph Berger of the group Hormipresa.
Cement DO Aragon
After a visit to the plant Azuara, who left the silos and ran from the front of the quarry plant crushing and screening, through the receipt of clinker hoppers and conveyor belts to reach the mill, CBA executives led a word of thanks to customers, suppliers, mayors of the region, the Minister of Industry, Arturo Aliaga and Marcelino Iglesias, President of the Government of Aragon , who already visited the plant in 2007 to lay the foundation stone for the support provided to implement the cement.
also Azuara Mayor Joaquin I. Alconchel proud to attend the birth of CBA, praised the effort of "serious entrepreneurs, the key to get this project local, but regional interest" because, as stated Jose Royo, CEO of MLN, "we are going to make cement Designation of Origin itself as ham. "
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