Cement Factory of Kakanj

The Director if the Cement Factory Kakanj and General manager of HeidelbergCement in BiH and Croatia Branimir Muidza told that by the end of 2018 additional 20 million BAM will be invested in the factory modernization and expansion of related businesses. 

The five-year plan involves the modernization and automation of equipment in the laboratory, so that the Company will be able at any time to work on patterns and material analysis on all counts of production, from raw materials to final products.

"Investment is our business commitment to long-term operations and long-term relationships with our customers and other stakeholders," said Muidza, adding that the shareholders in June last year made the decision to continue investing.

According to him, they planned to modernize the packaging and palletization for the purpose of ensuring reliable operation of the plant - long-term, including the availability of spare parts and service, increase in efficiency of packaging and improvement of the appearance of packaged cement as an end product.

The new system for continuous emissions monitoring will enable to better control the production process and further improvements, as well as to facilitate regular annual reports to the relevant authorities. Investment is essential in adapting the plant to use alternative fuels which will soon receive the approval, and which will open a new page in an environmentally sound way.

It is planned to purchase another mobile concrete plant, in order to maintain continuity of leadership position in the production of concrete and monitoring of large projects.

Cement factory Kakanj, in the first half of 2014, produced and marketed in BiH and Croatia 217.000 tons of cement which, coincides with the plan which this year projects a decline in consumption of cement as compared to 2013, primarily due to lack of new large-scale investment projects.

Significant funds were invested for certification of products for export to the EU, so that in several years the factory products will be in accordance with the standards of the European Union.

Two years ago, they fulfilled all the requirements for the CE mark, so that the Cement Factory Kakanj, now fulfills all the conditions of production and factories in the EU.

"From 2000 until today, we have invested more than 180 million KM primarily in the reconstruction of the factory facilities, so today we have the best available technology with the best possible care for the environment. Additionally, we have invested a lot in the development of related industries, primary the production of transport concrete, with which we provided our customers, aside from superior cement, with the top brands of concrete, not only in BiH but also in Croatia," said Muidza.