Philippines: Eagle Cement expects to save up to US$9.9m from a three-year income tax holiday for its new cement production line at its Barangay plant in Bulacan. The cement producer says it has been granted the tax exemption from the Board of Investments as it’s the only company expanding its production capacity, according to the Inquirer newspaper. Its competitors have been expanding their distribution capacity instead. Other savings are also anticipated from importing equipment from outside the country.
The company started producing cement on its third production line at its Barangay plant in April 2018. The upgrade added 2Mt/yr to the company’s total production capacity. It expects to reach its full capacity by the third quarter of 2018. The company is also building a new 2Mt/yr cement plant at Cebu is scheduled to be completed in 2020.