Africa & The Middle East

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.

Sinoma has signed a contract with Nigerian Ibeto Cement Company Limited for a 6000 tpd cement production line.

Vortex has announced the appointment of Maof Machine Design and Manufacturing Ltd. as its exclusive agent in Israel.

Sinoma International has ordered a complete grinding series from Loesche for its plant in Angola.

Loesche is to supply two vertical roller mills for a new brownfield line in Saudi Arabia.

MAN Diesel & Turbo has concluded a contract with the United Cement Industrial Company.

Cementir Holdings has announced its nine month results.

Qalaa Holdings has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Olayan Financial Company for Rashidi El-Mizan.

An event is being held in Côte d’Ivoire to discuss bridging Africa’s infrastructure gap.

The country plans on using more oil at home to fuel carbon-intensive industries such as petrochemicals, cement, mining and metal production.

The Sinoma Building Materials Industrial Park in Zambia will produce cement, bricks, fibre cement board and other building materials.

Greenhouse gas emissions come mainly from burning fossil fuels and from agriculture, cement production and deforestation.

High demand in the US has driven turnover up almost 19% for the Greece-based cement group, reporting its results for the first nine months of the year.