Bagmati, Feb 14 : The State-owned Hetauda Cement Industries Ltd has stopped producing cement in lack of coal.
According to the management, tender
has already been announced for the supply of coal. The Industry has set a plan
to import 10,000 metric tonnes of coal in first and second phase.
Deputy General Manager of the
Industry, Nabin Karna, claimed that the management has been making arrangement
to import necessary coal and they would start producing cement within a
week.
The coal would be brought from
India, Indonesia, Bhutan and Pakistan. The Industry, which was closed for long,
was again brought into operation three months ago.
Although it has a capacity to produce 750 tonnes cement in a day, it has not been able to produce the cement as per its capacity due to machinery problem and lack of human resources.
The Industry is in loss for the
past four years. It was established with the support of the Asian Development
Bank in 2033 BS. (RSS)