Tajikistan’s Toj Road to build asphalt plant

Tajikistan company Ghayue Cement and China's Huaxin Cement have launched the Huaxin Ghayue-Sughd Cement plant in the Sughd region of Tajikistan.

The investments in the project totalled TJS 1 billion (€113.81 million/US$127.08 million).

The plant's capacity amounts to 1 million tonnes/year.

A new asphalt plant will be constructed in Kazakhstan’s southern region. The facility will produce 22,000tonnes/year of fine-grained and 7,000tonnes/year of coarse-grained asphalt.

An upswing in new infrastructure worldwide means that demand for aggregates and therefore concrete is also increasing. Housing, non-residential, road, rail and bridges are among projects now under construction in many countries.

Indeed, statistics show that twice as much concrete is used in construction around the world than the total of all other building materials, including wood, steel, plastic and aluminium, and annual production is measured in billions of tonnes.

Reporting from Zambia, Shem Orier

Major global projects such as the UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah Road and the third airport in Istanbul require the supply of high-quality asphalt, and lots of it. Liam McLoughlin reports. We need to produce quality asphalt, and high volumes of it,” according to Adnan Elmasri, operations manager for Top Link Contracting & General Transportation, based in Dubai. Top Link, an established contractor in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, is providing mix for a new highway that will greatly alleviate the traffic on the major thorough