The Chief Executive Officer of Union Cement plant in Bates, Abyan governorate, Mohammad Ali Al-Essaye, expects the plant’s product to reach local markets in the coming weeks at three thousand tons per day.

And He pointed a statement to Yemen news agency (Sheba) That the plant will provide 390 jobs. Noting that 12 million euros have been spent on the environmental side and the highest international standards. The main equipment of the plant has been imported from Germany, Japan and Switzerland, and a power plant was provided with a capacity of 16 MW, which is expandable to 32 MW.

Al-Essayi said that the project’s accessories include a residential city, a shopping center, a hotel, a conference and wedding hall, an English learning school, four sports courts, swimming pools and a sports club. Praising the support and care provided by the President of the Republic Ali Abdullah Saleh, which gave positive results through the large investment projects in the governorate.

The governor of Abyan, Eng. Ahmed Al-Maisari, today briefed on the operation of the experimental production of the plant, which is expected to officially open in conjunction with the celebrations of the 20th National Day of the Republic of Yemen on 22 May.

And the governor Al-Maisri, has listened to the Chief Executive Officer of the plant, the briefed production process of the plant, which cost a total of 220 million dollars, with an annual production of one million tons of cement.

And went around the various production departments and the other facilities attached to it and the control room and electronic programming. He praised the first major development achievement of its kind in the governorate, which inaugurates an important stage in the economic and investment development process sponsored by the Excellency President of the Republic.

The plant was built on a total area of ​​nine kilometers in Bates district of Khanafar directorate