China National Materials Group Corporation (Sinoma), China's largest cement-making equipment producer, inaugurated a new dry-process cement plant in Baiyin, Gansu province on Dec 29.

With a total investment of 600 million yuan ($87.61 million), the plant is designed to produce 4,500 tons of cement daily and 2 million tons of high-mark quality cement annually.

When the plant comes into operation, it will consume 900,000 tons of industrial residues like pulverized fuel ash, copper ore slag and hydrofluoric acid residue.

(China Daily December 30, 2008)