Africa & The Middle East

Lucky Cement continues to work on expansion projects in Pakistan and Iraq, including a new 2.3 million tpy greenfield plant in Punjab Province.

Sika is establishing a new subsidiary in Senegal.

Les Ciments Artificiels Tunisien, a Tunisian cement maker, has achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system.

Tanzanian cement maker, Mbeya Cement, has signed a cooperation agreement with coal development company, Kibo Mining, including the supply of coal and flyash.

Eric Olsen is to leave LafargeHolcim in July as the company tries to draw a line under the controversy over its operation of a cement plant in Syria, which was linked with payments to armed groups.

PPC has inaugurated its Ethiopian operation as part of its expansion strategy.

FLSmidth has signed a contract to construct a cement grinding plant in Rwanda for Prime Cement.

A new Chinese-owned 0.4 million tpy grinding plant has begun production in Zimbabwe.

LafageHolcim is opening a Construction Development Lab in Casablanca.

Cemex has published its first Integrated Report, covering 2016.

Cameroonian cement maker, Cimencam, a subsidiary of LafargeHolcim Maroc Afrique, is to build a new plant near to the country’s capital, Yaoundé.

Elkon has installed an ELKOMIX-60 Quick Master Concrete Batching Plant for a company in Mauritius.

Guinee Industries Ciments (GIC) is to install KHD’s COMFLEX technology to upgrade the performance of its grinding unit at the Conakry cement plant.

President Hassan Rouhani has opened a new cement plant in South Khorasan in the east of Iran.

ELKON has supplied a new concrete batching plant to a company in Israel.