Iraq tenders three cement plant projects

The government-owned Iraq Cement State Company (ICSC) has invited companies to bid for 3 projects to make cement plants successful the country.

The archetypal and 2nd projects are focused connected processing 2 caller plants to nutrient Portland cement, each with a capableness of 6,000 tonnes a time (t/d).

The archetypal installation is owed to beryllium developed successful the Kufa quarries country successful Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf Governorate, and the 2nd is owed to beryllium developed successful the Mosul territory of Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate.

The 3rd task is focused connected expanding the existing Hadbaa cement plant, which is besides located successful the Mosul district.

The scope of this task includes establishing a caller dry-process, gas-fuelled enactment susceptible of producing 3,200t/d of mean and resistant Portland cement.

Normally, this benignant of accumulation enactment includes a earthy mill that grinds and dries the earthy materials earlier they are fed into the kiln.

It besides typically includes a preheater, precalciner, rotary kiln, clinker cooler and associated equipment.

The caller enactment needs to beryllium susceptible of producing cement suitable for dam filling, according to ICSC.

ICSC has invited “Iraqi and Arab investors” to enactment successful the projects, arsenic good arsenic companies specialised successful processing cement plants.

The deadline for submitting bids for each 3 projects is 23 June 2026.

Iraq’s state-owned cement shaper produced much than 676,000t of cement crossed its plants successful February, with cardinal plants posting double-digit maturation compared to accumulation levels successful 2025.

Its Kubaisa cement works produced 37% much than it did successful 2025, according to a connection by the company’s manager general, Awad Kazem Abd Al-Amir, successful April.

Its Qaim works was producing cement astatine a complaint 17% higher than successful 2025, and its Sinjar works astatine a complaint 14% higher.

Fallout from the determination struggle that broke retired aft the US and Israel bombed Iran connected 28 February has had a important antagonistic interaction connected Iraq’s vigor assemblage and wider economy.

It has disrupted a wide scope of projects and is apt to make uncertainty astir aboriginal cement request successful the country.

Prior to the warfare breaking out, Beijing-based Sinoma won a declaration from Iraq’s Nargis Group for engineering, procurement and operation (EPC) enactment connected a 6,000t/d cement accumulation enactment successful Basra.

Sinoma’s scope of enactment nether the contract, awarded successful February, covers the EPC of the implicit accumulation system, from earthy materials handling and clinker mentation to cement grinding, retention and shipping.

This nonfiction archetypal appeared connected MEED, portion of GlobalData Media.

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