By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The on-going modernisation of the Mawmluh Cherra Cements Limited (MCCL) will open new avenues for the loss-making company located at Sohra (Cherrapunjee).
The modernization process, which started in 2007, is expected to be completed in December this year.
Informing this, the Managing Director (MD) of MCCL Vijay Kumar told The Shillong Times recently that the existing cement plant is almost thirty years old and its production capacity has gone down drastically.
“We are not doing well for the last three to four years,” he said.
On delay in modernisation of the project, the Managing Director informed that work for the modernization started quite late and the working period in the area is four to six months in a year due to extreme weather conditions.
According to Kumar, mobilization of labourers is also a major challenge besides the space constraints have added to the delay in the commissioning of the project.
It is learnt that the production capacity of the plant is around 12000 metric tonnes which has gone down to 5000 to 6000 metric tonnes in a year.
Vijay Kumar started that the production capacity of the plant would increase to 18000 metric tonnes a year once the new plant gets commissioned.
The modernised plant would require less energy and electricity.
“We will definitely make profit once the new plant comes up,” he said.