Attock Cement Pakistan Limited (ACPL) successfully completed a new cement production line at its plant in Hub, Balochistan. The new line from Sinoma has a capacity of 1.3 Mta and brings ACPL’s clinker capacity to 4.08 Mta and the cement capacity to 4.3 Mta, expanding the country’s idle capacity at a time when construction activities remained slow amid elevated inflation and record-high interest rates. ACPL reported that the 1.H of FY2023-24 started promisingly for its Falcon cement brand, but during the second quarter local sales were affected due to unstable economic and other difficult conditions.