EUROCEMENT group (the biggest cement manufacturer in the CIS and 9th biggest in the world) signed a series of contracts with companies from the groups SINOMA, CNBM and SINOMACH , for the supply of equipment worth a combined total of more than half a billion dollars, within the context of a project, on a scale that has never seen before, involving the construction of modern cement manufacturing plants. The plants will use the energy-efficient, environmentally friendly 'dry' process to manufacture a total of 17 million tonnes of cement a year in 6 Russian regions (the Leningrad, Ryazan, Bryansk, Arkhangelsk, Ulyanovsk and Samara Regions).