The inauguration ceremony was attended by: Valery Serdyukov, Governor of the Leningrad region, Andrey Molchanov, Senator of the Leningrad region in the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Mr. Xie Xiao Yong, Consul General of China, Igor Levit, Chairman of the Board of Directors of LSR Group, Alexander Vakhmistrov, President, Chairman of the Executive Committee of LSR Group, Mikhail Romanov, Managing Director of New Business Development of LSR Group, Mr. Xu Ning, President of Hefei Cement Research & Design Institute (HCRDI), and also scientists, mass media and the plant’s employees.
The production technology, which uses the waste limestone from oil shale production as an additional raw material, was developed by FLSmidth & Co A/S.