Africa & The Middle East

The company has sold its majority stake of 51% in the Kuwaiti cement and ready-mixed concrete company, Hilal Cement, to Silver Share Real Estate.

The company currently exports to 70 countries on five continents and plans to increase its exporting capacity further each year.

The Turkish Cement Manufacturers Association (TÇMB) will continue to work with the TÜRKÇIMENTO brand, representing a total of 66 plants and also being an international representative of the Turkish cement industry.

Tamer Saka, Turkish Cement and Cement Products Council President, announced that despite the pandemic, the Turkish cement sector has been one of the sectors least affected by the pandemic and performed successfully.

Sohar Cement Factory has recently launched the SAP S4/HANA and SAP Success Factors development project. This system is considered to be the new generation of the commercial SAP programme group.

The company will supply a package of three bucket elevators, three belt bucket elevators type BWG and three Samson material feeders for the new OYAK plant, which is situated near Kribi in Cameroon.

The company has signed an agreement with Sinoma CBMI of China for the construction of three new cement plants of 3 million tpy in Edo, Sokoto and Adamawa states of Nigeria.

Construction output growth forecast for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2020 has been adjusted further to -5.2% from the previous forecast of -4.9%, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

The company has been recognised at two Best Employer Brand Awards, one focused on Oman companies and the other on GCC corporate entities.

The World Cement Association announced today it has appointed two new Directors: Roland van Wijnen, CEO of Africa’s PPC Ltd., and Mahendra Singhi Managing Director & CEO of India’s Dalmia Cement.

AUMUND France has supplied a complete solution package to LafargeHolcim Côte d’Ivoire for clinker discharge from a new silo with a capacity of 75 000t.

Chinese general contractor Sinoma International Engineering and its affiliated CBMI Construction are building a new cement plant for Les Ciments du Sahel in Senegal, which will be almost completely equipped with conveying solutions from the AUMUND Group.

The projects seek to achieve very low embodied CO2 footprint buildings using low carbon cement-based materials and locally available resources.

The company, a LafargeHolcim joint venture with CDC Group, is deploying 3D printing technology at scale to build affordable and low-carbon housing and schools in Africa, starting in Malawi.

Due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 outbreak, Oman’s construction industry is set to decline by 10.3%, according to GlobalData.