Macmahon awarded second Nigerian quarrying contract
Macmahon Holdings Ltd is to undertake quarrying operations at UniCem’s 2.5 million tpa cement plant near Calabar, Nigeria.
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Macmahon Holdings Ltd is to undertake quarrying operations at UniCem’s 2.5 million tpa cement plant near Calabar, Nigeria.
Holcim (Brasil) S.A. and Fives FCB recently signed a contract for the supply of a 4500 tpd clinker production line for the Barroso plant in Brasil.
This round-up includes news of further price increase in India, a new rail link that will open up further investment opportunities in Ras, and protests at a cement plant where a man was fatally injured in an accident.
The Philippines and Indonesia have much in common. The following article is an abridged version of the full article, featured in the December 2011 issue, which explores the two Southeast Asian countries’ similarities and differences.
Paul Maxwell-Cook looks at the developments in Turkmenistan over the last 20 years and the expectations for the future. This article is an abridged version of the full article, which appeared in the December 2011 issue of World Cement.
Indonesia’s Semen Gresik has told The Jakarta Post that it will build two new plants next year.
Lafarge’s product line-based organisation is to be replaced with a country-based organisation. This will include the removal of a layer of management and the resulting reorganisation of the Executive Committee.
IHS has lowered the outlook for global construction spending next year to 4.9%, due to economic conditions in the US and Eurozone.
Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK (LACUK) has been ranked 7th in the league table of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.
Danish engineering group FLSmidth & Co A/S cut its full-year 2011 expectation for cement capacity growth as activity in India stalled and third-quarter profits fell in line with forecast.
Holcim, the world's second largest cement maker, increased its sales volumes for cement, despite price hikes failing to offset rising energy costs and the strong Swiss franc.
A new 6 million tpa Dangote cement plant in Ibese, Ogun State, will soon be inaugurated.