Lo­cal ce­ment man­u­fac­tur­er Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) has gen­er­at­ed close to US$4 mil­lion in for­eign ex­change earn­ings dur­ing the month of Ju­ly, a his­toric achieve­ment that un­der­scores TCL’s grow­ing re­gion­al foot­print and its piv­otal role in T&T’s man­u­fac­tur­ing land­scape.

In ad­di­tion to the record-break­ing Ju­ly per­for­mance, TCL re­port­ed a 44 per cent in­crease in its month­ly av­er­age ex­port rev­enue for the Jan­u­ary to Ju­ly 2025 pe­ri­od, com­pared to the same time­frame in 2024.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the com­pa­ny said the suc­cess is be­ing hailed as a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to the na­tion­al econ­o­my, par­tic­u­lar­ly in sup­port­ing for­eign ex­change gen­er­a­tion, a crit­i­cal need in the cur­rent eco­nom­ic cli­mate.

Speak­ing of the achieve­ment, TCL Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Gon­za­lo Rue­da Castil­lo said the ex­port record re­flects more than just num­bers; it is a sig­nal of the com­pa­ny’s strate­gic di­rec­tion.

“This mile­stone stands as a tes­ta­ment to our broad­er agen­da of build­ing a re­silient, in­clu­sive, and sus­tain­able lo­cal ce­ment in­dus­try,” Rue­da Castil­lo said.

“We ap­plaud all our em­ploy­ees for this tremen­dous achieve­ment. It shows their ded­i­ca­tion to our shared goals of na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, op­er­a­tional ex­cel­lence, and strate­gic mar­ket ex­pan­sion, con­sis­tent­ly en­sur­ing that we sat­is­fy the ris­ing de­mand for the TCL ce­ment brand across re­gion­al mar­kets.”

The com­pa­ny not­ed that TCL ex­ports sus­tain­able, low­er-CO₂ ce­ment prod­ucts, which are less car­bon-in­ten­sive than or­di­nary Port­land ce­ment. These prod­ucts are part of the com­pa­ny’s en­vi­ron­men­tal strat­e­gy to re­duce its car­bon foot­print both lo­cal­ly and across its CARI­COM ex­port mar­kets.

It stat­ed that from its Clax­ton Bay fa­cil­i­ty, TCL serves not on­ly the do­mes­tic mar­ket but al­so re­gion­al des­ti­na­tions, de­liv­er­ing fresh, high-qual­i­ty ce­ment typ­i­cal­ly with­in five days, a sig­nif­i­cant lo­gis­ti­cal ad­van­tage over ex­tra-re­gion­al sup­pli­ers, who of­ten re­quire up­wards of twen­ty days for ship­ment.

“By main­tain­ing these ef­fi­cient sup­ply chains, TCL sup­ports crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture and con­struc­tion projects through­out the Caribbean, while strength­en­ing re­gion­al eco­nom­ic in­te­gra­tion and co­op­er­a­tion.

As TCL cel­e­brates this record-break­ing per­for­mance, the ce­ment com­pa­ny added that it re­mains fo­cused on scal­ing its op­er­a­tions and de­liv­er­ing val­ue to stake­hold­ers,” the com­pa­ny added.