Dangote Cement confirms appointment of CFO
Nigeria’s Dangote Cement has confirmed the appointment of Guillaume Moyen as chief financial officer, with effect from 18 March 2021. Mr Moyen joined Dangote Cement in Febru...
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Senegalese cement output up 9% in December 2020
The production of cement in Senegal has advanced 8.9 per cent MoM in December 2020. However, domestic cement sales have slipped by 0.1 per cent while exports were down 9.2 p...
Togo's new 2.5Mta plant to open next September
CimMetal has provided an update for its 2.5Mta new plant project in Togo. Preliminary works related to construction are now 65 per cent complete and the plant is expected to op...
Ghana reports cement price increase
Ghana has reported a small rise in cement prices due to an increase in the cost of imported clinker in recent days. A bag of cement which was earlier sold for GHS38 (US$6.62) i...
Kalambaina Cement to launch second line in July
Nigeria's Kalambaina Cement (BUA Cement) is set to launch its 3Mta second line in July this year, which is expected to increase supply and stabilise the price of cement, accord...
Lafarge Africa to install baghouse at Ewekoro
Nigeria’s Lafarge Africa has committed US$8m to change its current electrostatic precipitator to a baghouse at its Ewekoro plant. As a result, the company is planning to shut...
Vicat announces FY20 sales of EUR2805m
Vicat announced FY20 sales of EUR2805m, up 5.5 per cent from EUR2740m in FY19. EBITDA rose to EUR557m, up by 10.1 per cent LfL and EBIT increased to EUR298m, a rise of 17.5 per...
BUA Cement sees 19% revenue increase
Nigeria’s BUA Cement has seen a 19.3 per cent increase in revenue to NGN209.47bn (US$549.5m) in 2020, compared to NGN175.51bn in the previous year. Operating profit also climbe...
Société Ciment Côte d’Ivoire’s new plant inaugurated
Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Souleymane Diarrassouba, inaugurated the new cement plant of Société Ciment Côte d’Ivoire (SCCI) in the PK24 Industrial zone...
GCM to build 0.64Mta plant in Burkina Faso
General Community Management (GCM) Industries has started the construction of a 0.64Mta cement plant on a 7ha plot in the industrial zone of Kossodo, Burkina Faso. The first st...