Lucky Cement inaugurates fifth WHR plant to produce 10MW power

Project has been set up in collaboration with China’s Sinoma Energy Conservation

LAHORE: Lucky Cement Limited inaugurated its fifth Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) plant on Monday in Pezu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which will generate power up to 10 megawatts.

The project, which utilised two cement production lines with a daily output of 2,400 tons, has been set up in collaboration with China’s Sinoma Energy Conservation Limited. Previously, the company established four WHR plants, two in Pezu and two in Karachi.



The design of these plants is based around the idea of encapsulating all the wasted heat from the production system and using this heat to generate steam from boilers which eventually run the turbine engines, thus producing electricity.



On the occasion, Lucky Cement Limited CEO Muhammad Ali Tabba said, “Our WHR plant has not only significantly reduced cost by co-generating electricity, it has also helped lower dust emissions and environmental effluents thus having a positive impact on the atmosphere.”

He added that being one of Pakistan’s leading cement manufacturers, the company had the social and environmental responsibility to reduce its energy consumption. The newly-installed WHR plant forwards this agenda.



Lucky Cement Limited is the flagship company of the Yunus Brothers Group, operating in Pakistan since 1993. It is one of the largest producers and leading exporters of quality cement in the country, with a domestic production capacity of 7.75 million tons per annum. The company is also listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange as well as London Stock Exchange.

Besides this, it is the only cement company to have its own cement export terminal at Karachi Port with a storage capacity of 24,000 tons.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2017.

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