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Infrastruktura - Środowisko - Energia
Dodatek promocyjno-reklamowy do "RZECZPOSPOLITEJ".
20 marca 2007 r.
po polsku
Cement w in the National Road Construction Program
 Cement industry operating in
Poland joins the National Road Construction Program for 2007-2013. "Our plants
are able to provide the required quantities of cement on time," assured Jan
Deja, Director of the Office of the Cement Producers Association during a
conference of the Polish Road Congress, held in Warsaw on 6 March.
Polish cement plants are among
the most modern plants in Europe. That is the effect of modernisation
investments made by the owners. The volume of the investment outlays over the
last dozen or so years reach PLN 6,000 million. In effect, Polish cement plants
are not only among the most modern plants in Europe but they are also
energy-saving and ecological. According to the official government forecast
made on commission of the minister of environment for the needs of CO2 allocation
in 2011-2012, cement consumption will be at the level of 18-19 million tons and
in optimistic variants may even exceed 20 million tons. Today's production
potential of the cement plants is 18 million tons. In connection with forecast,
the cement sector plans modernisation and construction of new production lines.
Specific plans and decisions of producers will be known this year.
"I am convinced that are plants
are able to provide the quantities of cement on time," assures Jan Deja, Director
of the Office of the Cement Producers Association. In his opinion, among
signals of concern are suggestions by contractors of road investments that
growing raw material prices, including cement, have had a major effect and
raised by as much several dozen percent the value of bids in tenders for the
construction or repair of roads.
"Those signals require a
calculation to be presented. According to data used by Poland's Government
administration, based on an analysis of highway investments completed so far,
cement consumption per 1 km of a highway is about 4,000 tons. Assuming - as per
information available in offers by cement plants - that the average cement
price is PLN 240 per ton, we get the cement cots in 1 km of a highway at about PLN 950,000," clarifies Jan Deja. "Assuming that the average construction
costs of 1 km of a highway is about PLN 22 million, the share of cement in the
overall highway construction costs is about 4.0% and only to a very limited
extent affects the actual highway construction costs."
At the moment, only few major
portions of Polish highways and roads have cement concrete surface. For instance,
the portion of the A4 highway west of Wrocław and a branch of that highway - A18
towards Olszyna. The national road with concrete surface is a 12-kolimetre fragment
of "Gierek's road" between Polichno and Wolbórz. Ring roads of towns are
built of concrete, e.g. the ring road of Młodzieszyn.
In Western Europe concrete
surface highways and roads, due to their performance, have been frequently used
for years. From the investor's viewpoint, the major feature of concrete surface
roads are their whole life costs.
Local governments convince that
this is true. Presidents, mayors village chiefs know best how to spend taxpayer
money. It is due to their initiative and economical approach that we have had
several hundred kilometres of local concrete surface roads built all over the
country over the last 10 years. For them a concrete road is an investment for
generations. They know what the are building and for whom.
Association of Cement Producers
www.polskicement.pl
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