A ministry official source said, “There are currently 14 cement laboratories in Iraq. They work at an annual design capacity of 14 million tons. On the other hand, their production has retreated to 3 million tons due to the last events, which happened to the production sector and what accompanied the last war of looting, robbery and sabotage operations, in addition to the lack of electricity power, etc. These laboratories need a lot to reach the design levels, the most important of which are investment money, electricity, fuel, rehabilitation and others.” The source added, “The ministry has set an effective plan to increase the production capacity of these laboratories. It actually started applying it with some companies, through financing them from the aids, which we received to use in the rehabilitation works, executing separate electricity power units and not relying on national electricity.”
Baghdad – Wessam Sa’d:
