Africa & The Middle East

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.

Lafarge Africa has announced its results for FY16, reporting progress on its turnaround plan.

Titan Group recorded a significant increase in net profit in 2016 on the back of growth in the US and a recovery in Egypt.

Rent-A-Drum has inaugurated its RDF processing plant, in partnership with Ohorongo Cement.

Foreign cement companies in Ethiopia are being asked to allow unemployed youths to control their pumice mines.