Latvia’s Sakret signs franchise agreement with Sakret Russland

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 Lukyanovsky Mining and Processing Plant in Russia plans to up production to 200,000tonnes of quartz sand/year for the glass industry.

In 2016, the company plans to begin the construction of a dry mixes plant, raise the output of quartz sand to 500,000tonnes and increase staff numbers to 150 workers.

HeidelbergCement is constructing a new US$ 250 million clinker plant with an annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes in the Tongan town of Tabligbo, some 80km north-east of the capital, Lomé. The company is also building a new cement grinding facility with a capacity of 200,000tonnes in Dapaong. “The construction of the new clinker plant and the cement grinding facility is part of our strategy of focusing on expanding our clinker and cement capacities in growth markets. In addition to Asia and Eastern Europe,