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Johannesburg - Pretoria Portland Cement [JSE:PPC] expects its new mill in Pretoria to increase capacity by 30%, a senior executive has said, the Business Report reported on Friday.
The news followed even as the firm battled flagging sales due to an industry-wide slump.
PPC, South Africa's biggest cement maker, was under pressure in its home market, where the construction industry was struggling to bounce back after a 2009 recession.
Managing director of the company's cement operations, Salim Kader, said that PPC, which has the capacity to produce eight-million tons of cement, expected the R699m mill at its Hercules plant in Pretoria to boost capacity by 30%.
The mill was commissioned last year.
PPC, which said in May it was eyeing expansion elsewhere in Africa to compensate for weak sales at home, said it would upgrade other plants within three to five years.
The news followed even as the firm battled flagging sales due to an industry-wide slump.
PPC, South Africa's biggest cement maker, was under pressure in its home market, where the construction industry was struggling to bounce back after a 2009 recession.
Managing director of the company's cement operations, Salim Kader, said that PPC, which has the capacity to produce eight-million tons of cement, expected the R699m mill at its Hercules plant in Pretoria to boost capacity by 30%.
The mill was commissioned last year.
PPC, which said in May it was eyeing expansion elsewhere in Africa to compensate for weak sales at home, said it would upgrade other plants within three to five years.
