Africa & The Middle East

Estanda has supplied dip tubes to Lafarge-Holcim’s Nigerian cement plant.

Lafarge Readymix Nigeria Ltd. has formalised its partnership with Construction Kaiser Limited.

thyssenkrupp will build two cement and clinker production lines for the Saudi cement company, with a total capacity of 20 000 tpd.

Lafarge Africa has been given three awards at the Social Enterprise Report Awards in Nigeria.

A panel held at PIDA emphasised the importance of creating jobs for Africa’s youth through infrastructure development.

APCMA has made a request to the Commerce Ministry to suspend the import of cement through land routes.

PIDA Week included a visit to its flagship project, the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor.

ASEC Cement has announced that the sale of two of its subsidiary companies is now complete.

CEO Darryll Castle calls it a ‘year of two halves’, with the second half seeing significant improvements.

PPC Ltd has announced that rising demand for cement in Africa would help it double the size of the company every decade.

For the fifth consecutive year, Aliko Dangote tops Forbes’ top-50 of Africa’s Richest with a net worth of US$16.7 billion.

First program operator consortium launched for environmental product declarations market at Greenbuild 2015.

According to a report by Reuters, Kenya's ARM Cement has announced that it is seeking up to US$90 million via a privately placed five-year bond.

The African Development Bank is focused on power, food, industry, Africa’s integration and quality of life.

The LafargeHolcim-owned company, based in northeastern Nigeria, has reportedly lost more than N4.5 billion due to the insurgents.