About Cement

About the Cahya Mata Cement Properties Sdn Bhd

This company is the sole manufacturer of cement in Sarawak with two grinding plants, one in Kuching (established in 1974) and one in Bintulu (established in 1998), with a combined rated capacity of 1.6 million MT per year.

It manufactures Portland Cement for the Sarawak and adjoining markets, which it makes available in 50 kg or 1 MT bags, through a network of dealers using both its and third-party land and marine transport, and in bulk using 20 – 40 MT road tankers or its pneumatic conveying facilities to cement transportation vessels.

The two cement plants are supported by 6,000 MT marine flat store terminals in Miri and Sibu, each with pneumatic cement conveying facilities which are in turn serviced by two (soon to be three) dedicated purpose built 4,000-tonne DWT barges that continuously transport cement from the plants to the terminals. Each barge is equipped with a fully enclosed dust free pneumatic loading and unloading system that enables all weather operations.

The Kuching plant which has its own jetty is also equipped to receive inward bulk cement shipments for when there is a need to import bulk cement. Bintulu plant adjoin Bintulu port where it has priority usage of a jetty for clinker imports and cement exports with a dedicated hopper and conveyor for the transportation of clinker from the port to the plant.

To meet the anticipated increase in cement demand, Cahya Mata Cement is developing a 1.0 million MT per annum grinding plant adjacent to the Mambong clinker plant. Construction of the new RM190.0 million plant began in 2014 and cement production is set to commence by the first half of 2016 (1H 2016). With this third plant in its stable, Cahya Mata Cement’s total production capacity will increase by almost 60%. This will enable Cahya Mata to meet growing cement demand in Sarawak, have significant reserve production capacity, as well as potentially extend our supply into nearby countries.