Kyzylkumcement adds new line

Industrial group BUA has signed a contract with Chinese cement manufacturing company CBMI for the construction of a new plant in Nigeria.

The Kalambaina Cement Line 2 plant will be located in Sokoto State in the north West of the country and is planned to manufacture 3million metric tonnes of cement per annum.

The announcement comes a few weeks after Nigerian authorities approved the merger between Kalambaina Cement and the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN). BUA owns a 90% stake in CCNN.

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Aggregate Industries has opened a new asphalt plant to serve Staffordshire and the surrounding parts of England's Midlands as part of a £9 million investment.

Olmaliq Mining and Smelting Plant (Olmaliq KMK) has built a cement plant in Jizzax region of Uzbekistan. Around €82 million has been invested in the project. The plant's capacity is 760,000tonnes of Portland cement and 350,000tonnes of white cement per year. A pilot batch of product was produced on 20 March 2014.

A Scottish quarry near Aberdeen was recently the site of one of the most intense crushing and screening operations ever seen, writes Patrick Smith.

“It is not easy to get 13 machines in one place at one time and get them all working, including eight in a line,” says Nigel Irvine, Terex Finlay’s director, sales and marketing.

This was achieved at the company’s customer days, which were held at the quarry to show much of the company’s equipment at work, including the new Terex Finlay 684, two-deck tra