Malaysia: Cement Industries (Sabah) is investing US$29m to establish a second production line at its Telu Sepanggar plant, in an effort to increase cement production capacity and reliability of cement supply throughout Sabah. The line is presumed to be a grinding line, due to the small investment. According to general manager Sumardi Mohd Yusuf, the line will boost the company’s production capacity by 0.55Mt is and projected to come online by the end of 2028. The project has secured approval from the company’s board of directors, and an engineering consulting firm has been appointed for the project.
Yusuf said that the Sabah’s West Coast region is currently experiencing disruptions due to delayed clinker shipments, resulting from a vessel carrying 20,000t of clinker that ran aground near Tanjung Port, South Kalimantan. Yusuf said that a replacement clinker shipment was expected to arrive during the second week of October 2026.