# National Cement Company of Alabama inaugurates new $300M line at Ragland plant

National Cement Company of Alabama, a Vicat subsidiary, inaugurated a new US$300 million production line at its Ragland cement plant on July 21, 2022. The line includes a new rotary kiln equipped for alternative fuel use.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2022-07-21
- Where: Ragland, Alabama, United States
- Value: $300.0M
- Starts operating: 21 Jul 2022
- Status: completed
- Products: cement
- Sectors: [Construction Materials](https://endata.com/sectors/construction-materials.md)

## Companies

- [National Cement Company of Alabama](https://endata.com/companies/64317.md)
- [Vicat](https://endata.com/companies/16215.md) (investor)
- [Vicat](https://endata.com/companies/16215.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [cemfuels.com](https://www.cemfuels.com/news/1898-national-cement-company-of-alabama-inaugurates-new-line-at-ragland-cement-plant), 2022-07-22: "This puts us into the next 40 or 50 years. And it's prolonged the life of the plant to move us forward into the next entry hopefully."
- [yellowhammernews.com](https://yellowhammernews.com/national-cement-company-of-alabama-invests-300m-in-ragland-expansion-project/), 2022-07-22: "This morning, we cut the ribbon on the National Cement Company of Alabama's $300 million expansion – the largest investment in the history of St. Clair County!"
- [annistonstar.com](https://www.annistonstar.com/the_st_clair_times/stclair_news/national-cement-holds-ribbon-cutting-for-new-kiln-facility/article_f50ea3a8-09f8-11ed-905a-a3d2e8a791af.html), 2022-07-22: "This major investment on behalf of the Vicat Group results in at least 40 percent reduction in our carbon footprint vastly improves our environmental impact and is a big step in the entire cement industry's efforts to achieve carbon neutrality across the concrete value chain by 2050."
- [worldcement.com](https://www.worldcement.com/the-americas/26072022/national-cement-of-alabama-inaugurates-300-million-addition-to-longtime-ragland-operation/), 2022-07-26: "National Cement Company of Alabama's longtime Ragland manufacturing plant is just concluding a two-year, US$300 million project to install cement production equipment."

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