Africa & The Middle East

National Quarries LLC use Sandvik products to improve productivity.

Sika is opening its first admixture and mortar production facilities in Nigeria and Ivory Coast.

Cimentos da Beira, which has built an 800 000 tpy cement grinding plant in Sofala province, Mozambique, is planning to export as well as sell cement domestically.

The British Safety Council has announced the winners of this year’s Sword of Honour and Globe of Honour awards.

Increased port capacity and a new product launch are in the news today in Tanzania.

Limak Holding is making an initial investment of US$40 million in a 2 million tpy cement plant in Maputo, Mozambique.

Second year engineering students visit Ohorongo Cement plant.

The AfDB has increased its annual climate funding to US$5 billion

The government has launched the US$500 million Simona Group Building materials industrial park in Lusaka.

The 3 million tpy cement plant cost a reported US$600 million to build and is part of Dangote’s pan-African expansion plans.

Ron Wirahadiraksa, aged 55, will succeed Group CFO Thomas Aebischer who is pursuing new opportunities outside the Group.

BIMCO’s shipping market overview and outlook deals with global macro-economics.

Tenova has entered into final negotiations with SGS to sell Bateman Projects.

Qatar Primary Materials Company signed a Contract of Afreighment with Hyundai Glovis aimed at shipping 50 million t of aggregates to Qatar.

During the events several valuable prizes including modern TVs and smart phones were given to the winners.