Africa & The Middle East

During a visit to Sokoto State, President Buhari praised BUA Group for being the largest employer in the northwest region of Nigeria.

The new Ciments du Maroc grinding centre located 18 km from the city of Nador in the municipality of Ouled Settout, will be operational from July 2022.

Fives FCB and Sococim Industries (a subsidiary of the French cement group Vicat) have signed a contract for the supply of the new Rufisque Plant 6500 tpd clinker production line, Senegal.

The company has supplied advanced semi-dry heavy-duty concrete to the flagship port of AD Ports Group.

Following the news that Egypt is planning to bid to host the 2036 Olympic Games, Colin Foreman, Deputy Editor at MEED, part of data and analytics company GlobalData, offers his view.

World Cement Editor, David Bizley, provides an update on recent cement and construction news from Sub-Saharan Africa.

The company has announced Africa’s largest 3D-printed affordable housing project in Kenya, developed by its joint venture 14Trees in partnership with CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution.

The plant is located in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown and has a capacity of approximately 500 000 tpy.

The sale of Holcim’s business in Zambia follows the divestment of the Indian Ocean cluster, which was closed at the end of October 2021.

It will join another cement handling Siwertell ship unloader in Shuaiba Port, Kuwait City, Kuwait, which has been securing environment-friendly material handling for the operator for over two decades.

Ahmad Al-Rousan, Secretary General of the Arab Union for Cement and Building Materials (AUCBM), provides an overview of the challenges facing the cement industry in the MENA region.

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 70 MW captive power plant for the BUA’s new Sokoto cement production plant in Nigeria.

The company has signed an agreement to acquire 68% of the shares in the Tanzanian cement producer Tanga Cement. With this step, the company further strengthens its local business and creates significant synergies with its existing assets in Tanzania.

Forty of the world’s leading cement and concrete manufacturers have joined forces to accelerate the shift to greener concrete by pledging to cut CO2 emissions by a further 25% by 2030, marking a decisive step in the race to ‘Net Zero’ concrete by 2050.

The signing of the O&M agreement took place in July 2021, and is an extension of a previous 10-year agreement.