Cement is the latest addition in the list of export commodities in Bangladesh. Our countrystarted exporting cement from January 2003. Crown Cement of M.I. Cement Factory Ltd. takes the pride of part of it. Earlier, apart from some production of state-owned Chhatak Cement Factory, the country was dependant on its import. In this context, local investors took the initiative for setting up cement factories and starts producing cement in 1992. The production in eight private factories stood 34 lakh tons in 1997, So far, about 100 Factories got government's approval of which 56 factories are on production with a production capacity of 1.30 crore metric tons against a domestic demand of 60 lakh tons in a year.