Biskra — Algeria is moving towards "self-sufficiency in cement and steel products thanks to the new facilities to be operational in the short term," Minister of Industry and Mines, Abdeslam Bouchouareb said Sunday in Biskra.
Speaking during a meeting with local economic operators, at the headquarters of Biskra prefecture where he was on a working visit, the minister said that Algeria, which imports about 3 million tons of cement per year, "will manage to cover its needs and even over produce by 2016."
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