D.G Khan Cement Company Pvt Ltd Dera Ghazi Khan

•Nishat Group
(ON GOING PROJECT)

DGKCC recognized the need of having least expensive fuel alternatives due to increase in coal, fuel and furnace oil prices in last few years as well as increased competition, nationally and internationally. Increase in coal, fuel and furnace oil prices were overall impacting the price of cement. Keeping in view this situation, management of DGKCC initiated to make

decision of investment in RDF, a modern technology that uses the municipal waste and other means to low cost fuel to produce energy. This project provides the fuel alternative to run the production operations smoothly as well as also enables to control the overall cost of the products. The work on first phase of Refused Derived Fuel (RDF), alternative fuels, at Khairpur cement plant has been successfully completed and your company has started replacing imported coal with different alternative fuels, e.g. industrial and agricultural wastes, cotton sticks, corn cops, rice husk and rice powder, municipal waste etc. After reviewing the encouraging results of RDF project at Khairpur cement plant your company has decided to implement the first phase of RDF at DG khan site and also started extension phase at Khairpur cement plant. The projects are expected to be completed in the current calendar year. Ongoing power shortage and rising tariff forced your company to start power generation from waste heat recovery at Khairpur cement plant. The project is expected to generate 8.5MW. Plant & machinery will be supplied by M/s. FL Smith Denmark. The project is expected to be completed in the first quarter of FY 2013. This project will reduce reliance on power purchase from WAPDA and bring down the cost of production.