Supplying Africa
The Nigerian cement industry is developing at breakneck speed, with a drive that reaches beyond the country’s borders. At the forefront of this trend is locally-based Dangote C...
Africa
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Switched on to Africa
HeidelbergCement will soon complete US$400m worth of investment in its nine cement operations active in the sub-Saharan region, which will see production capacity rise by more ...
ACCTA 2013 success leads to a biannual conference
The first conference on Advances in Cement and Concrete Technology in Africa (ACCTA 2013) was held at the Emperor’s Palace Resort in Johannesburg, South Africa, over 28-30 J...
ScanMines-Togo expects first clinker at end 2014
ScanMines-Togo, a subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement, expects production at its new works, located on the Sika-Kondji limestone deposit, to start at the end of 2014. T...
Opportunities in new Africa
Africa is a land of opportunity, rich in potential and certainly the next challenge for many cement producers. The sub-Saharan region is changing rapidly and the race is on to ...
HeidelbergCement expands capacity in Ghana
HeidelbergCement is constructing a new cement mill with an annual capacity of 0.8Mta at its grinding plant in the port city of Takoradi. The investment of US$30m also includes ...
HeidelbergCement builds grinding facility in Burkina Faso
HeidelbergCement is constructing a new US$50m grinding plant in the west African country of Burkina Faso with local partners, the cement major said in a statement today. The ne...
G Power Cement to construct new plant in Cameroon
Cameroon is set to see the establishment of a new cement plant as G Power Cement on Friday signed an agreement with the government for an 800,000tpa plant. The privately-hel...
Asia and US improvements boost Vicat nine month results
Vicat's turnover for the first nine months of the year edged ahead by 0.2 per cent to EUR1731m, but this represents an underlying decline of one per cent. Asian and US improvem...
Dangote sets sights beyond Africa
Dangote Cement is expanding out of Africa. While its chairman Aliko Dangote remains firmly committed to the continent and its 40Mta production capacity owned by the company, he...