Africa & The Middle East

HeidelbergCement CEO Dr Bernd Scheifele told Bloomberg that Africa is an important part of the company’s ‘emerging markets exposure’.

Lebanon’s Cimenterie Nationale has joined the WBCSD CSI, an indication of its commitment to sustainable development.

FLSmidth will supply a range of equipment to Misr Cement Company’s plant in Egypt, located some 45 km from Luxor.

The shutdown of East Africa Portland Cement Company’s clinker and packing units resulted in a pretax loss of KES124 million in the six months to 31 December 2014.

The Ohorongo Cement plant in Namibia has recently received visits from the Zambian Deputy High Commissioner and the National Housing Enterprise.

Loesche is supporting non-profit organisation Charity: Water, with projects in Asia and Africa.

Qalaa Holdings’ Board of Directors has approved a capital increase of EGP1.7 billion, to be primarily funded through the capitalisation of liabilities resulting from the purchase of additional shares in core subsidiaries. An EGM will now be held to approve the increase in paid-in capital from EGP8 billion to EGP9.7 billion.

Ohorongo Cement, via the Ohorongo Otavi Community Trust, has donated 1250 tubes of sunscreen to help protect Namibian people with albinism from getting skin cancer.

Analysis carried out by Timetric’s Construction Intelligence Centre (CIC) suggests that the rate of growth for the global construction market is accelerating, rising from an annual average of 2.7% in 2011 – 2013 to 3.1% in 2014, with a forecast of 3.8% for this year.

Catch up with the latest news from the global cement industry, from financial results to wind farms and carbon capture media.

Timetric has also put together a list of the countries that it predicts will experience the fastest rate of construction growth between 2016 and 2020.

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Lafarge Africa has agreed to support Shelter Afrique in facilitating access to affordable housing in Nigeria.

EDF Energies Nouvelles is commissioning its first wind farm in South Africa, located at PPC Cement’s Grassridge Quarry in Port Elizabeth.

Oman’s Raysut Cement has reported its financial results for 2014, showing an increase in total revenues but a slight decline in net profit.