Displaying items by tag: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Hunger strikers hospitalised outside Hattar cement plant
24 February 2021Pakistan: Medics took three protestors from the site of a hunger strike outside a cement plant in Hattar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to hospital in Haripur. The News International newspaper has reported that nine fired workers won a case before the National Industrial Relations Commission (NIRC) to be reinstated to their jobs at the plant. When not given back their jobs, they began the hunger strike on 17 February 2021.
The cement company said that it is appealing the NIRC’s decision.
Bestway Cement, Dewan Hattar Cement and Mustehkam Cement all operate cement plants in Hattar.
Cherat Cement to build new production line at Nowshera plant
24 January 2017Pakistan: Cherat Cement has announced plants to build a third production line at its plant at Nowshera in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The new line will have a cement production capacity of 7100t/day, according to the Express Tribune newspaper. The upgrade will increase the company’s production capacity to 4.5Mt/yr.
The cement producer opened at second production line at the site in late 2016. It is also planning to build a waste heat recovery unit.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to invest US$245 in cement plant
24 January 2017Pakistan: Pervez Khattak, the chief minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has ordered that plans to build a cement plant at Haripur be sped up. He made the pronouncement while attending a meeting to plan infrastructure development in the region including new towns, an oil refinery and hydroelectric projects, according to the Dawn newspaper. Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) officials who attended the meeting said that US$245m would be invested in the cement plant project. Altogether the investments total nearly US$10bn and are part of the on-going China-Pakistan Economic Corridor initiative.