Quarry Products

For the second year, Cemex is running its Driving Apprenticeship Scheme with the aim of recruiting 18 young people who want a career in driving aggregate tippers and cement tankers. Of the 18, 13 will be based at quarries, wharves or depots gaining experience with aggregate tippers.

This year the scheme has been extended to cement logistics, with apprentice drivers based at the company’s three cement operations: Rugby, South Ferriby and Tilbury.

This Driving Apprenticeship Scheme helps to address a

Guillermo Brusko is to head up LafargeHolcim Russia. The newly merged French-Swiss company says Brusko’s main task will be management and strategic development of the new company in the Russian market. Brusko is the former CEO of Holcim in Russia.

Nigeria’s Ogun State government is teaming up with cement manufacturer Lafarge Africa to develop state-wide solutions for waste management.

A working committee will be established as part of the effort to develop solutions for managing various wastes in Ogun. The parties will also establish a transparent and sustainable legacy on renewable energy. The planned forest restoration initiative by the two bodies is aimed at addressing environmental concerns.

A Zhejiang Shangfeng Building Materials (Zhejiang Shangfeng) cement project in Kyrgyzstan is scheduled for completion in 2016. The company plans to invest US$156.31 million on the new plant. Zhejiang Shangfeng is a China-based cement clinker production line operator.

New cement factory licenses in Egypt are being postponed by the North African country’s General Authority for Industrial Development (GAID). The move is said to be due to a rise in the untapped potential of existing plants and the recession in domestic and global markets.

GAID president Ismail Gaber said the authority will re-examine the cement consumption market in the country as well as future needs. GAID was planning to issue between 12 and 14 licenses for cement factories in the current fiscal year,

Tanzanian cement producers claim cheap imports are distorting the market, limiting their growth prospects in the continuing construction boom.

They say their growth prospects looked bearish despite a growing demand of cement to feed the rapidly expanding construction sector in the country fuelled by significant investment in new and existing infrastructure.

Reinhardt Swart, chairman of the Tanzania Chapter of East African Cement Producers Association (EACPA), said the industry is facing contraction an