Is new cement plant more than Atlas can handle?

The management of the Atlas Group, a producer of construction materials, has decided to construct a limestone-processing factory and cement plant worth zl. 500 million. "We bought the deposit near Opoczno," said Atlas president Grzegorz Grzelak. However, there is tough competition on the cement market and analysts predict that the nine groups active on it will soon undergo consolidation. According to the president of Gorazdze Cement Andrzej Balcerek, Atlas's move was strange and added, "It is like someone willing to drink beer buying a brewery". The new plant will have a capacity of 1 million tones output per year, while the company uses only 150,000 tones a year. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 10) M.M.