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A huge cement plant has come up in the vast desert in just two years and it is located on about 120km away from the Egyptian capital city of Cairo.
The plant boasts six production lines with a total production capacity of 6,000 tons per day."It is the biggest cement plant in the world to be built all at one time and in one place," said Wu Yong, project manager at China National Materials Group (Sinoma), the Chinese firm responsible for building the plant.
He said there are cement plants in the world that can produce more, but those were built in separate stages."The schedule was really tight for us. We signed the contract on June 1, 2016 and were required to start production by the end of 2017," Wu said. "That meant we had to do all the geological exploration, topographic survey, design and mining as well as build the 17,000-sq-m living area in less than two years."
"The site was full of life when Chinese workers and their Egyptian colleagues worked in the scorching sun," Wu said.The plant produced its first clinkers in December 2017 and passed all inspections in May 2018 with all the indicators meeting or exceeding the contract standards.
The project has made outstanding contributions to local economic development and set a model of Chinese standards and "China speed" to serve the Belt and Road Initiative.
