Africa & The Middle East

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.

PPC’s new Barnet plant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is supporting a number of initiatives to improve the lives of local residents.

Loesche has supplied five mills to SARL Biskria Ciment in Algeria.

The Nigerian government has praised Dangote Cement for its role in making Nigeria self-sufficient in its production of cement.

The start-up of a coal mill and waste co-processing activities at Cimpor’s Alexandria operations allows the company to stop using fuel oil and natural gas, reducing fuel costs.