Demand for cements in the region has prompted the state owned Jammu and Kashmir Cements to double its production capacity. It is planning to double its production capacity from 600 tonne per day. "The production capacity of the cement plant at Khrew, in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, is being increased from 600 tonne per day to 1,200 tonne to bridge the huge gap between demand and supply of cement in the state," said S S Slathia chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Cements Ltd. He further said that despite having huge deposits of high quality limestone, the state imports a large quantity of cement from other states to meet its requirement. The company will also set up a 300 tonne per day clinker grinding-cum-packing unit at the Industrial Growth Centre (IGC) at Samba, in Jammu, for which it had already acquired nearly three acres of land on a lease basis from SIDCO.