现在拉法基做为主要股东在伊拉克拥有2家水泥厂，其中另一个厂是2008年1月收购的Orascom水泥厂。这两个新厂表明拉法基正在推行其水泥内部增长策略，并展开执行其产能扩张计划。该计划开展区间为2006-2012年，公司还将修订2008年部分，以适应当前的经济环境。因此，在此期间，拉法基将新建成4800万吨的水泥产能，主要是在发展中国家，这些国家日益凸显出非常高的水泥需求。
因此，位于Bazian和Tasluja的厂（两厂间距离约30公里）将使拉法基可以应对伊拉克市场对建筑材料的强劲需求，伊拉克这个处于重建时期的国家对于水泥的需求正以每年15％的速度递增。拉法基设法通过向建造住房和基础设施提供优质原料来协助重建。如今的伊拉克，每四吨水泥中就有一吨来自拉法基在伊拉克的工厂。
附英文：
Lafarge inaugurates a new cement plant in Iraq
(Bazian, Iraq) -- Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, inaugurated a new plant at Bazian, in Iraqi Kurdistan. This new plant is situated thirty kilometres away from Sulaimaniyah, which is the second biggest city of the region. It has been in operation since mid-2008 and has an annual production capacity of 2.5 million tonnes of cement It is equipped with the latest technology and meets the Group's environmental standards as applied by Lafarge across all its operations. It is partly powered by a "captive" electricity station built by Lafarge next to the plant.
Lafarge now holds 2 cement plants in Iraq as principal shareholder, which result from the acquisition of Orascom Cement in January 2008. With these two latest plants, Lafarge is pursuing its internal growth strategy in Cement and progressing with the implementation of its capacity expansion program, undertaken for the 2006-2012 period and revised in 2008 in order to adapt to the current economic reality. Thus, during this period, 48 million tonnes of new cement capacity will have been built, principally in developing countries, which are seeing very high levels of demand.
As such, the Bazian and Tasluja plants (about 30 kilometers away from one another) will enable Lafarge to respond to the strong demand for building materials in the Iraqi market, in a country going through the process of reconstruction where the requirement for cement is increasing by 15% per year. Lafarge seeks to assist these efforts by supplying quality materials for the construction of housing and infrastructure. In Iraq today, one tonne of cement in every four comes from Lafarge's Iraqi plants.
Lafarge now holds 2 cement plants in Iraq as principal shareholder, which result from the acquisition of Orascom Cement in January 2008. With these two latest plants, Lafarge is pursuing its internal growth strategy in Cement and progressing with the implementation of its capacity expansion program, undertaken for the 2006-2012 period and revised in 2008 in order to adapt to the current economic reality. Thus, during this period, 48 million tonnes of new cement capacity will have been built, principally in developing countries, which are seeing very high levels of demand.
As such, the Bazian and Tasluja plants (about 30 kilometers away from one another) will enable Lafarge to respond to the strong demand for building materials in the Iraqi market, in a country going through the process of reconstruction where the requirement for cement is increasing by 15% per year. Lafarge seeks to assist these efforts by supplying quality materials for the construction of housing and infrastructure. In Iraq today, one tonne of cement in every four comes from Lafarge's Iraqi plants.
