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By Trevor Thwaites
Inside Grenada correspondent
Wednesday October 25, 2006


TRINIDAD and Tobago Company - Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) is striving to be the leading supplier of their product (cement), with the advent of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). TCL last week Tuesday launched a new product at the Flambouyant Hotel in Grand Anse, St George’s. “Premium Portland Pozzland Cement”, is the name of the new product that was launched here last week and is expected to be in the regional market by the end of the year.

“It has improved strength and it has better workability over the long term”, operations manager, Fitz Rawlins, said at the launch. Scores of builders and contractors were on hand for the commissioning of the new product. Rawlins said that the new cement is part of TCL’s drive to provide its customers with new and more reliable products. “The Pozzland Cement is going to be one of the options available to customers within the Caribbean and South America.

Rawlins assured the local construction fraternity that the new product is a reliable one. “It has been tried and tested and we have actually used
third parties to allow us to bring in the market place a product that is extremely reliable. “TCL puts its name behind that product because we know
that it is going to perform in the applications that we have outlined”. The TCL official said that the cost of the new product is part of the Company’s
US$20Million dollar Plant Expansion Project, geared to bringing quality services to its customers.

The new product was officially launched in St George’s. Similar ceremonies are scheduled across the region within the next month and officials are
hopeful that the new product would have been tested and accepted by clients before the end of November.

TCL is confident that the Premium Portland Pozzoland Cement, will be fully in the market place by the New Year. Grenada should have adequate samples of this product by end of the week. “We are hoping for good feedback from the small man, the ready-mix companies and block manufacturers. This we will also be doing across the region, as we prepare for a large scale launch of the product”, Rawlins said.