Lafarge opens new terminal

Hungary-based Nostra Cement - a joint venture between Lafarge and Strabag - will officially open its new 1million tonne per year cement plant in Kirayegyhaza at the end of June. Work on the €270million facility will continue through to September this year. The new facility will have capacity to produce 1million tonnes of cement and 750,000tonnes of clinker per year and will be supplied with raw materials by the limestone quarry in Bukkosd, which will be transported to the site by a new 5km long rail link.

Lafarge's Volos cement plant in Greece has set up a novel partnership with a local drinks company, allowing it to reuse the company's wastewater in the cement producer’s industrial process.

The Volos plant has connected its water network to that of the drinks company, using a nearby pipe previously used to pump water from a now disused bore hole to the plant.

Now, waste water from the drinks company is piped directly to the Lafarge works, where it is used in the conditioning tower, before de-dusting

Lafarge and Anglo American have agreed to sell a portfolio of Tarmac and Lafarge construction materials operations in the UK and Tarmac's 50% ownership interest in Midland Quarry Products (MQP) to Mittal Investments, the private investment vehicle of the Lakshmi N. Mittal family. Steel magnate Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, 62, is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel-making company, of which he owns 41%. He is said to be the richest man living in Europe and is Britain’s wealthiest with a

BAM Ritchies has been awarded a contract by Granutogo (a HeidelbergCement company) to carry out primary drilling and blasting of between 300,000-600,000tonnes/year from a rock outcrop close to the township of Agbelouve, Togo, West Africa identified as Amelekpe Migmatite on the featured map of Togo. The quarry will be developed by BAM Ritchies in benches of 10-15m in depth. BAM Ritchies will provide profiling, surveying, drilling and shot-firing services as well as explosives and initiation accessories. Gran