Sunday, March 20, 2011

Arkan Eyes Capacity Expansion through Dhs100m Dry Mortar Plant

UAE, Mar, 20. Arkan Building Material Company has announced the launch of a Dhs100m dry mortar plant in Al Mafraq. The setting up of the state-of-the-art facility called Arkan Dry Mortar spread over more than 57000 square meters of area is a part of Arkan’s capacity expansion drive within the category of dry mortar products.


Arkan Dry Mortar has a wide range of products such as machine applied plasters, masonry mortars, tile mortars, and floor screeds. The Arkan plant will also provide such facilities as palletizing, tanker filling, and automatic shrink wrapping.


Saeed Al Mutawa Al Dhaheri, VP- Projects, Arkan expressed optimism in calling the new facility a sound investment and an enterprise that would persist in providing quality and cost-effective solutions to the regional construction industry.

The project Arkan Dry Mortar will produce pre-mixed mortars at the rate of 1000 tonnes per day.

Construction work has begun at the site, and by the fourth quarter of 2011, the unit is expected to be fully operational.

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