Belize: Cementos Rocafuerte has commissioned its new Belmopan grinding plant at a 10ha site adjacent to the George Price Highway. The Belizean has reported that the grinding plant is the first in the country, which previously imported Cementos Progreso’s cement from Guatemala. The value of the Cementos Progreso subsidiary’s investment in the new facility was US$8m. In its first phase, the plant will employ 28 Belizeans.
Chief executive officer Jose Raul Gonzalez said that the plant, “meets all environmental and quality standards that this country deserves.” He added, “Life must go on, and the development of Belize shouldn’t be stopped by the virus or by the lack of proper building materials.”