Russia: Siberian Cement’s chair Oleg Sharykin has signed an agreement with the Sergey Tsivilev, the Governor of Kuzbass, to build a lime plant in the Kuzbass Special Economic Zone. The Euro23m project will create a 0.2Mt/yr lime plant with two kilns. The unit will use the Solominskoye limestone deposit, which is being developed by Topkinsky Cement, a subsidiary of Siberian Cement. Around 70 jobs are expected to be created. Russian lime production was reported at around 11Mt/yr from 2014 to 2020.
