Lafarge transfers cement grinding mill to Rawang plant

THE pioneer and leader of the Malaysian cement industry, Lafarge Malayan Cement, will transfer an idle cement grinding mill, presently at its Langkawi plant, to the Rawang facility, thus increasing the grinding capacity of the latter by 800,000 tonnes of cement a year. 

The additional cement mill was expected to be commissioned and would start production in July 2005, Lafarge president and chief executive officer Alain Crouy said in a statement yesterday.