Oman Cement Company has said that the Public Authority for Consumer Protection (PACP) has initiated an investigation on the quality of cement imported by the company.
A team from PACP visited the company to inspect the cement imported and locally purchased for blending with its own cement, which the team considered as a violation.
However, the company assured the team that the cement purchased was manufactured by reputed local and foreign cement companies according to the specifications and conformed to high quality standard followed by OCC.
OCC also assured the authority that the cement purchased had been subjected to laboratory test.
The clarification was in response to a newspaper report on deceptive commercial practices carried out by a company in importing 30,000 tonnes of inferior quality cement, which was re-packed and sold as high quality product at a high price.
"The purchase of cement, which amounts to about 30,000 tonnes and is hardly one per cent of the annual capacity of the firm had been necessitated due to breakdown of one of the cement mills of the company in April 2013," said a company statement.
