Chad: President Idriss Déby opens CIMAF plant
Chad’s President, Idriss Déby Itno, inaugurated on Monday the new Lamadji cement plant just north of the capital, N’Djaména. The works marks the cooperation between the coun...
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Morocco’s Tekcim project online 2019?
First announced in 2012, Tekcim’s cement plant in El Jadida, Morocco, is expected to open in 2019 with work to begin in a few months’ time, reports La Tribune. To finance th...
Moroccan demand slips 0.7% YoY in March
Morocco’s cement demand fell 0.7 per cent YoY in March from 1.334Mt in March 2016 to 1.324Mt one year later. While the Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dehab region saw sales soar by 27.7 pe...
Morocco: LafargeHolcim to open Laâyoune grinding unit
LafargeHolcim is preparing to inaugurate its first cement grinding unit in Laâyoune, southern Morocco. The new facility is expected to support the development of the entire ...
Votorantim sees cement revenues fall 10% YoY in 2016
Votorantim, formerly Votorantim Industrial, generated a turnover 8.7 per cent lower at BRL26,738m (EUR8046m) and EBITDA declined by some 38 per cent to around BRL4300m (EUR1,29...
LafargeHolcim opens Construction Development Lab in Morocco
LafargeHolcim has opened a new Construction Development Lab (CDL) in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. The laboratory, the firm’s eighth, joins those in Algeria, Argentina, C...
Moroccan cement sales slip 10% in February
Morocco's cement market contracted 9.9 per cent YoY in February to 1.064Mt from 1.181Mt in February 2016. The Laayoun-S Elhamra region saw the largest decrease of 39.4 per c...
APC: Moroccan cement producers use renewables for 80% of energy requirements
Moroccan cement producers source about 80 per cent of its energy from renewable energy sources, Mohamed Chaibi, president of the Moroccan cement association, APC, said. Lea...
Ciments du Maroc posts net loss of MAD-155m
Ciments du Maroc announced a MAD1.2bn (US$118.7m) improvement in its net loss to MAD-155m in 2016. Operating income reached MAD1.292bn in 2016, a 9.8 per cent increase when com...
CIMAT posts revenues down by a quarter for 2016
Ciment de l’Atlas (CIMAT) expects to report revenues of MAD2.16bn (US$215.7m) in 2016, compared with MAD2.67bn the year prior. The company attributes the drop to the decelerat...