Azbentonit plant’s new gypsum line

The joint venture Fonika Gips (Aksolit's brand) will deliver a gypsum plant in the Kamskoe Ustye district of the Tatarstan Republic (Volga) in July 2013. The enterprise will include an underground mine, a gypsum crushing unit, and seven facilities for producing gypsum mixes and gypsum board. The plant will manufacture 200,000 tonnes of gypsum stone; 15 million m² of gypsum board; 300,000 m² of gypsum partition blocks and 120,000 tonnes of dry building mixes. Investments are estimated at €124.91 million and

The Matanat-A company has opened a new gypsum plant, Yeni Agdag, with a capacity of 400,000tonnes/year in the Qaradag district of Baku, Azerbaijan. The National Entrepreneurship Support Fund has issued a subsidised loan of AZN 1.50 million (€849,612/US$920,215) for construction of the facility. A half of the output will be exported to Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Iran.

The company further plans to build another four plants worth AZN 150 million.

A Hercules HT182C heavy duty trommel screen, manufactured in Shropshire, England, by Stelex Construction Equipment Ltd, has been installed at Saint-Gobain Formula’s (Formula) Bantycock Quarry near Newark, Notts as part of SGF’s £7 million investment in the site. The newly-installed 77tonne trommel will support one of Formula’s key objectives of reducing airborne dust emissions from the site, having been fitted with additional spray bar dust suppression units and bespoke extended side panel screens to partia