Oct 21, 2004 21 October 2004. Lafarge said it would open a EUR50m ($63m) upgraded cement plant in the Serbian town of Beocin. Lafarge’s expansion in central Europe will take another step forward tomorrow with the inauguration of a fully modernised cement plant with a capacity of 1.5Mt, the company said. The plant represents the largest foreign investment in Serbia in the last five years, the company