Morning Star Cement - Hanoi, Vietnam

Morning Star Cement (MSC) started operations in 1996, initially through importing and packing bulk cement for the domestic market in Vietnam. The operation comprises of a coastal clinkerisation & grinding unit of 1.4 million tpa (without a packing facility) and a split-located, coastal blending & packing terminal of 1.8 million tpa (incorporating 0.4 million tpa of pozzolanic blending material). The clinkerisation & grinding unit was commissioned in early 1998, till which time the importing operation was predominant. Holtec provided support to MSC’s marketing function continuously for a period of over one and a half years, between March 1997 and November 1998. Prior to this involvement, Holtec also conducted the pre-investment market study for the project in 1994 to arrive at the feasible capacity.