Cement News tagged under: Angola
Mali: new integrated Astro Cement plant to produce first cement06 December 2012, Published under Cement NewsThe latest addition to the cement industry of Mali, the Astro cement works located at Gangoterie is expected to be fully up-and-running on 21 December. The project, owned by Diamond Cement Mali (DCM), has a 1Mta cement capacity with a 0.5Mta clinkerisation unit installed at the village of Gangoterie, Bafoulabé, while grinding will take place at Ko-Gare in Kati, Koulikoro. The grinding facility has been operational since 8 June, when the first bag of cement with delivered clinker was produ... |
Secil plans to build second cement plant in Angola06 December 2012, Published under Cement NewsPortuguese group Secil plans to build a second cement plant in Angola in order to increase production from 280,000tpa to 1.8 Mta, the managing director of Secil Lobito, Augusto Miragaia, said in Lobito. The managing director said that the current needs of the Angolan market, which stand at between 4Mta and 5Mta of cement, justify construction of another plant, which is a project that the company has had in mind for a few years. Augusto Miragaia also told Portuguese news agency Lusa that... |
Minister stresses that Angola still has a cement shortage24 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsJoaquim David, Minister of Geology, Mining and Industry, announced that important projects were underway to curb Angola’s shortage of construction materials, in view of local needs. The official was speaking to journalists in Catumbela Industrial Growth Point (PDIC), ahead of the inauguration of the Cimenfort cement plant, owned by Grupo Genea Angola. Answering to a question whether the opening of the plant was bringing the price of cement down, the minister said that even if that did not... |
Angola: Cimenfort cement plant inaugurated23 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsThe Cimenfort cement plant was inaugurated on Wednesday in the Catumbela Industrial Growth Point (PDIC), central Benguela province, during a ceremony presided over by the Minister of Geology, Mining and Industry, Joaquim Duarte David. Estimated to have cost US$100m, the plant is a Genea Group Angola investment that took four years to construct. According to the factory’s director general, Paul Marcius Ang, the plant will initially produce 720,000tpa of cement, before rising the production... |
New plant set to begin operation, Angola15 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsThe new Cimenfort factory, owned by the Genea Angola Group, will come into operation on the 22nd August 2012 in the municipality of Catumbela, Benguela Province, according to a statement released by the company. According to the release, production capacity of the plant in the first phase will be 720,000tpa while the second phase – scheduled for completion in 2013 - will see capacity reach 1Mta. (Source: Angop, Angola) |
Indian workers paid dues, Angola24 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsFollowing a month-long dispute, most of Indian workers employed at a cement plant in Sumbe in Angola have been paid part of their pending dues while arrangements made for repatriation of those who want to return to India. "All outstanding overtime dues for February, 2012 have been paid in US dollars to all the workers present. Outstanding overtime dues for March, 2012, will be disbursed in US dollars on May 23 and 24. As of today, more than 700 Indian workers have reported for duty," Indi... |
‘Stranded’ Indians in Angola being brought back – report16 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsIndian workers allegedly held captive in a cement factory near Sumbe town of Angola in Africa are safe and those willing to return home are being brought back, Khaleej Times reports. Shaktisinh Gohil, Congress MLA and leader of the opposition in Gujarat, told the newspaper that the Ministry of External Affairs had on Tuesday contacted the Angolan ambassador and the country’s government following which, he claimed, the seven-day crisis had ended. Gohil said he and Ahmed Patel, Rajya Sabha ... |
Indian workers held in Angola14 May 2012, Published under Cement NewsAround 1200 men from across India working in Angola cannot return home as their travel documents have allegedly been held by the company for which they work. The workers were hired by ETA Star International to work in a cement factory near Sumbe, the administrative capital of Cuanza Sul Province in west central Angola. Workers have been protesting against the non-payment of wages?for the past four days. Travel documents have allegedly been confiscated by the company and police are have... |
Genea Angola’s cement factory will be expanded25 April 2012, Published under Cement NewsFollowing ICR’s news yesterday’s about Angola’s new Cimenfort factory, due to launch production in May, it is now reported that a second line will be built at the plant. Angolan news agency Angop reported that in a second phase the cement factory would be expanded by installing another kiln, which would increase production to 1.2Mta. The factory, which is the result of an investment of US$100m by Angolan company Genea Angola, which operates in the real estate and construction sector, is... |
Angola’s Cimentfort enters service in May23 April 2012, Published under Cement NewsAngola will see a new cement plant enter service in May. The Cimentfort works in Catumbela is expected to produce around 0.7Mt by year-end, according to a report by press agency Angop. Located near a railway line, the production facility is also ideally placed to supply cement to the southern provinces via the Benguela Railway. The provinces of Huambo, Bie and Kuando Kubango will be among the first to benefit from the new plant’s output. |