Africa & The Middle East

African Natural Resources Center (ANRC) seek comments and recommendations from stakeholders in order to better advise African countries on how to effectively utilise natural resources.

Operational results were good for the Egyptian company, which increased capacity utilisation and sales volumes in the January – March quarter, but net profits fell due to higher costs.

The African Development Bank initiative aims to identify key areas of intervention in order to provide better assistance in the management of renewable and non-renewable natural resources.

At the recent AGM in Lagos, shareholders approved a dividend of 360 kobo per ordinary share, a 9% increase from the 2013 dividend.

Press reports indicate that Ethiopia’s Prime Minister will perform the opening ceremony.

Cemengal has announced a number of new orders for its grinding stations and Plug&Grind® system in South America, the Middle East and Africa.

Rockwell Automation has announced the appointment of Thomas Donato as President for the EMEA region.

The Nigerian cement manufacturer has announced 19 new projects to support the communities close to the Ibese cement plant.

Typically cement has been supplied to the market in traditional paper sacks but this may be about to change.

PPC has published its unaudited results for the half-year ended 31 March 2015.

Unicem is providing a long-term credit line for the scheme, which will help support individual homebuilders.

The Namibian cement company has won the Environmental Excellence Among Industries Award from Namibia’s Environmental Investment Fund.

The Nigerian cement company is seeing the benefit of its additional cement production capacity across Sub-Saharan Africa.

The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa has recommended that SARS impose provisional anti-dumping duties on Portland cement originating from Pakistan.

Ahmed Methlouthi, Ministry of Trade, Tunisia, provides an overview of the Tunisian cement industry.