Plans are under way for a $25 million cement plant near Te Kuiti, producing 80,000 tonnes a year, with Perry Group about to lodge a resource consent application for the project.
The planned site for the plant is at Te Kumi, five kilometres north of Te Kuiti at a lime quarry owned by Ravensdown Fertilizer, which Perry Resources has a long-term contract to supply.
The site is already intensively quarried, producing high-grade agricultural lime, and burnt lime for the pulp and paper and road industries.
Perry Resources general manager Peter Walsh said the company was hoping to have its resource consent application to the Waitomo District Council ready by May. Consultation was to take place after that.
The area was already zoned industrial and its location meant it was ideal for a cement plant, he said.
Construction was expected to take 12 to 18 months after consents are granted, and the plant was expected to be commissioned in mid-2013.
The plant would supply customers throughout Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Auckland.
"Our operation is close to major markets and decreases the significant costs associated with shipping and ports infrastructure," Walsh said.
He said the operation would be a lot smaller, at 80,000 tonnes per year, than the country's two biggest cement suppliers, Holcim and Golden Bay.
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