Quarry Products

Dangote Cement in Nigeria has started construction of a 3 million mt cement plant in Okpella, Edo State for US$500 million (€448.02 million), in addition to the 6 million mt project in Itori, Ogun State. The plant uses a standard design and will directly employ over 5,000 people and create thousands more indirect jobs. Group MD and CEO Devakumar V G Edwin said the project will boost Dangote's domestic and international market share and avoid consumption gaps.

LafargeHolcim announced today that Martin Kriegner, currently Area Manager Central Europe, will be appointed Head of India, effective 1 March 2016. He will report to Eric Olsen, Group CEO and succeed Bernard Terver who has decided to retire.

Martin Kriegner joined LafargeHolcim in 1990 and has previously held several senior leadership positions in the Group, including CFO and CEO of the Group operations in Austria as well as Head of Lafarge India and Regional President Cement for Asia. He graduated from

According to the Belarus State Statistics Service, the country's plants produced over 4.64 million tonnes of cement in 2015.

The figure, a decrease of 17.5%, is the first drop since 2000.

Output went down by 6.6% in Q1 year-on-year; by 15.9% in Q2, and by 15.4% in Q3.

The cement products produced include Portland cement, aluminous cement, blast-furnace cement, and similar hydraulic cements.

Maccaferri Central Europe, part of Italy's Maccaferri Industrial Group, has completed the construction of its new 11,000m² production hall in Senica in Slovakia before the planned deadline.

Maccaferri has relocated the production from its existing plant in Brezova pod Bradlom where no expansion of production was possible.

Currently the new plant employs 102 out the total planned 160 workers.

Maccaferri provides tailor-made technical solutions and geosynthetic materials such as gabions for use in co

The first phase of work on a limestone mine at Czatkowice, belonging to the Polish energy company Tauron, has been completed, enabling mining from a new limestone deposit.

The works were carried out on 8.5 hectare of woodland.

The new deposits, located on some 50 hectares of land, will extend the life of the mine until 2060

Boosting your company’s top and bottom lines is the focus of complementary keynote presentations at two European aggregates conferences being launched later this year.

The first will take place on June 27 the Radisson Blu Hotel at Manchester Airport, with the second scheduled for Brussels on November 17.

The headline themes are future productivity and profitability; manufactured sand; equipment technology; land management best practice; and big data and the aggregates industry.

Speakers are current

LafargeHolcim has received a revised order from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the divestment of its interest in Lafarge India, including three cement plants and two grinding stations with a total capacity of around 11 million tonnes/year.