
State Secretary visits OPTERRA plant
Katrin Schütz, State Secretary in the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Housing of the State of Baden-Württemberg, recently visited OPTERRA’s Wössingen plant to find out about occupational safety there.
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Katrin Schütz, State Secretary in the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Housing of the State of Baden-Württemberg, recently visited OPTERRA’s Wössingen plant to find out about occupational safety there.

The Institute of Quarrying (IQ) Excellence Awards aims to celebrate individuals and teams across the mineral products sector. Due to the coronavirus, IQ has announced all of its regional winners as national IQ Excellence Awards winners for 2020.

Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Zimbabwe, has found an investor to build and operate a 32MW solar power plant in Matabeleland South province.

Owing to the effects of COVID-19, the construction industry in Spain is now expected to contract by 10.4% in 2020, according to GlobalData.

Nigeria’s second largest cement producer is set to establish a 3 million t cement plant and a 50 megawatts power plant in the North Easter region of the country.

The company reports that India’s construction sector is now expected to contract by 7.5% in 2020, due to the already weakened industry being further damaged by the COVID-19 lockdown.

Skourides I. and Petrou S., Vassiliko Cement, and Akritopoulos M. P. and Abbas T., Cinar, discuss an innovative project at the Vasilliko cement plant, using MI-CFD analysis to reduce NOx emissions generated in the calciner.

The FTSE4Good Index placed Argos among the top five companies in the world in the construction materials sector with the best corporate governance, environmental and social management practices.

The company has reviewed the business prospects of all significant local business units of the group in the second quarter of 2020, considering the expected effects of the COVID 19 pandemic on the business.

The company has supplied Petra Cement in the Philippines with a ready2grind system.

LafargeHolcim is the exclusive supplier of the Bogotá-Villavicencio road infrastructure project, and is making the journey to Bogotà three times faster.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) construction sector is expected to be affected by lower oil production, low oil prices and contracting non-oil sectors.