ACC is a reliable clinker and cement supplier, committed to exceeding our customers’ expectations through an efficient multi-skilled team focused on our core business and supported by the latest technologies.

We adopt and implement quality and safety management systems that comply with international best practices and standards: ISO 9001:2008 and OHSAS 18001:2007.

Our quality, and occupational health and safety is based on seven principles:

1.  Provide a healthy and safe work environment for employees, visitors and contractors.
2.  Comply with the applicable occupational health and safety legal obligations and customer requirements.
3.  Detect, control, eliminate, or mitigate occupational health and safety risks associated with the company’s operations and activities.
4.  Set and continuously review the company's objectives and goals in order to plan improvements that support the sustainability of the organization.
5.  Measure and monitor our customers’ needs fulfillment with the aim of reaching maximum customer satisfaction.
6.  Select qualified, multi-skilled, and professional staff and support their continuous performance.
7.  Continuously improve and upgrade the performance of the quality and safety management systems in order to meet the highest standards.

ACC factory consists of two identical and fully equipped clinker lines with an annual production capacity of 2.1 million tons each. Our state-of-the-art equipment and technology supports a streamlined process and adaptability to local conditions. The plant machinery is of the most advanced proven design, supplied by world’s leading equipment manufacturers.

ACC’s limestone quarry is located 2.8 KM from the plant site. Nearby, the raw material crusher receives the limestone together with the outsourced clay. After crushing, the raw mix is transported via belt conveyor to the storage inside the factory. The limestone-clay mixture is automatically controlled by a gamma ray cross belt analyzer. 

Other materials needed for clinker and cement production, in lesser quantities, are directly delivered to the plant by truck.

Prior to the pyro-process, the raw mix, together with minor additions of sand and iron ore, is ground into vertical mills (2 ATOX 45) capable of grinding up to 500 t/h at the required fineness.

The five stage ILC Preheater/Kiln/Cooler systems, which are the core of the pyro-process, are the biggest capacity ever built in Egypt to date, designed for 6000 t/day each line. It can produce up to 6700 t/d steadily and comfortably. The clinker freshly produced is stored in 35,000 ton clinker silos. Each clinker line is equipped with two horizontal ball mills capable of grinding 200 t/h for a total installed capacity of 800 t/h cement production. To store the different types of cement, four silos with a capacity of 15,000 tons each are available. All silos have truck loaders underneath and feeding systems to the packing plants.

Both packing plants consist of 3 packing machines of 120 t/h each and 1 palletizer with a capacity of 210 t/h. Each packer can either feed the palletizer, or two manual truck loading points, which allows them to run continuously 24 hours per day. This way, 720 t/h can be loaded at any time but also, in peak times, forklifts can load more cement from two storage areas with a capacity of 2,000 tons each, where freshly produced palletized cement is stored.

All processes are monitored and controlled by PLC centralized in the Control Room, and the quality of each production step is controlled by fully equipped laboratory and personnel 24 hours per day 7 days per week.

Arabian Cement has established and applies a quality, safety, environmental and energy management systems, with the aim of enhancing overall business position and performance, reaching the highest level of stakeholders’ satisfaction, and continuously improving the measures of internal control.

The aforementioned management systems have been certified individually as stand-alone systems and are being audited by well-known certification bodies which are internationally accredited and have the know-how to certify a wide range of internationally recognized management systems in various sectors and industries.

The certifications were granted, after proof has been furnished that the requirements according to the relevant international standards are fulfilled.

In line with our vision and mission, we adopted and applied an integrated management system combining quality, occupational health & safety, environmental and energy management systems, that complies with the requirements of the international standards of ISO 9001:2015 – ISO 45001:2018 – ISO  14001:2015 – ISO 50001:2018 – CE 197-1:2011 (Conformité Européenne) – NF 197-1:2012 (Normes Françaises) respectively.

Beyond certification, internal and external audits are performed, along with frequent management reviews to ensure the continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of the implemented management systems. The results and outcomes are reported directly to the top management to take prompt decisions and actions when needed.

Arabian Cement is always striving for continuous improvement, and dedicated to maintain world-class management systems.

(1) In 2011, the certification scope of the QMS was extended to include the production and sales cement.

ACC is pioneering the industry with bold, efficient, reliable and sustainable advancements. We are among the first cement companies to implement a groundbreaking approach to alternative fuel consumption in Egypt, having invested millions of dollars to shift to the use of alternative fuel and more environmentally-friendly resources, including renewable energy.

In 2014, the Egyptian government announced it would begin phasing out energy subsidies. This has driven us to put even additional efforts in improving our energy performance. ACC partnered with UNIDO through the industrial energy efficiency program to support the implementation of an EnMS in compliance with ISO 50001.

ACC participated in an energy bench marking study for the Egyptian cement sector where we were evaluated as the top performer within the sampled organizations. This has further motivated the top management to continue our efforts towards more sustainable production.

To support this approach, ACC established an EnMS that institutionalized a systematic approach to managing, monitoring, and improving energy performance. These efforts were recognized through the certification by TUV (Nord) based on third-party auditing.

In addition, ACC won an Award of Excellence in EnMS from the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) in 2017, a high-level global forum that promotes policies and programs to advance clean energy. this award recognizes the top ISO 50001-certified organizations that demonstrate exemplary leadership in energy management and share insights that can help accelerate use of ISO 50001 and its economic and environmental benefits worldwide.

ACC was also awarded “Middle East Region Energy Project Award of the year“ in 2019 from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). In 2022, ACC was awarded the Appreciation Award in the yearly competition “Arab Energy Efficiency Day” organized by the Arab League, for the company’s distinctive role in energy efficiency.

ACC uses the most updated technologies in the operation of the plant and we are the first cement plant in Egypt to use solar energy which also provides financial benefits through cost savings as well as environmental benefits through reducing carbon footprint.

In the context of the Egyptian environmental regulations, the compliance audit conducted by the Egyptian Pollution Abatement Project (EPAP II) shows that Arabian Cement Company is complying with the applicable regulations in terms of air emissions, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste management practices.

ACC aims to support the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions by partial replacement of fossil fuels with alternate fuels (rejects from municipal solid wastes, dried sewage sludge from water treatment plants, industrial wastes, agricultural wastes, and licensed to burn different kind of hazardous wastes.

Apart from a willingness to play our part in contributing to global greenhouse gas emission reductions, another key driver for ACC is energy security. Although ACC is equipped to use natural gas, diesel oil or even solid fuels (coal and/or petcoke), with increasing energy costs and concerns over energy availability in the future, ACC is driving energy efficiency in our production processes and to substitute the valuable fossil fuels with waste-derived fuels wherever possible and feasible.

By the end of 2013, ACC started using alternative fuels and was targeting to achieve 30% of its total required energy. Such approach would greatly contribute to the sustainable development in Egypt.

ACC is using a variety of methods to reach our alternative fuel target by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels through partial replacement by alternative fuel, maximizing both energy efficiency and total thermal substitutions rate, as well as supporting the ecological system by reduction CO2 emissions. One method is the installation of a HOTDISC system in line 1, an effective combustion device that can burn all kinds of solid wastes thereby reducing the investment and operational cost of pre-treatment of wastes. ACC’s use of the HOTDISC system is the first time such technology has been used for alternative fuels in Egypt, and it is considered the 9th installation worldwide, and 1st installation of FLS 3rd generation with a design capacity of up to 30 tph.

ACC has registered its alternative fuel activities as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM as defined in the Kyoto Protocol) resulting in an average annual emission reduction of approximately 100,000 tons of CO2/yr over 10 years.

In 2016, Evolve Investments and Project Management was founded as a subsidiary of Arabian Cement Company. It specializes in build-own-operate waste treatment plants and providing organic and alternative fuels to energy-intensive industries. Evolve provides alternative fuels to ACC and other local companies, enhancing their operations and positively impacting the environment. As part of ACC’s commitment to reduce CO2 emissions, the company is using environmentally friendly carbon neutral sources of fuel provided by Evolve.

As a key player in the waste management industry, Evolve is a trusted partner for the safe disposal of waste. Through strong and long-lasting business relationships with waste producers in Egypt, Evolve secures varied waste sources ranging from municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial waste and agricultural waste.

Through Evolve, ACC aims to offer integrated alternative fuel solutions to other industries, extending and enhancing the beneficial effect that the organized treatment and disposal waste will have on Egypt.

In addition, Evolve is helping improve the community by collecting large quantities of industrial and municipal waste from other companies and municipalities that otherwise would have ended up polluting Egypt’s land and rivers.

Evolve also offers consultancy services to local authorities to support the development of waste management systems and to encourage more industry players to take advantage of the many opportunities found in this sector.