On October 17, The Steel Structure Fabrication for Saudi YAMAMA Cement Plant Project was formally started.

Saudi YAMAMA Cement Plant was founded in 1961. It is the second largest cement plant in Saudi Arabid. At present time, it has the annual production capacity of 6,300,000t. Taking account of environmental protection，this plant will be moved from Riyadh to Jiddan 80km east of Riyadh. The steel structure fabrication work is totally about 33000t. The largest building (preheating tower) is 36.5mL×21.9mW×164mH. The single building steel structures are 4381 ton. The planned fabrication period is 14months until the end of 2017. （Reported by: Sun Jielun）