Abay Industrial Development Share Company has signed agreements with Chinese Hengyuan Group and Danish FLSmidth combines to build a cement plant in Dejen town, Amhara regional state, at a cost of 8.8 billion birr.                              
24/1/19,www. fanabc.com

United Cement Investor will start building a new 1.5Mt/yr cement plant at Bir Thlathin in southern Tataouine, Tunisia in March 2019.               
9/1/19, www.globalcement.com

Oman’s largest cement manufacturer, Raysut Cement Company is eyeing acquiring Athi River Mining Cement (ARM) of Kenya as part of the company’s aggressive strategy to expand in East and Central Africa.         
4/12/18, www.apanews.net

Cement investment in Africa continues to proliferate.  However are there too many plants too soon and possibly with strong consumption yet to pick up… Is the industry heading towards an overcapacity or self- sufficiency? In sub-Saharan Africa, will the continuing flow of Chinese investment into infrastructure along the former Silk Road through the Belt & Road initiative offers opportunity to cement suppliers? Will demand in countries like Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya improve?

Northern Africa is rapidly turning into an export market as capacity outstrips local demand. Increasingly, countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria are looking into export markets in West Africa or Europe. LafargeHolcim’s new cement plant in Morocco is projected to be completed by 2020, how will this impact the North Africa supply/demand balance? 

About 500,000 tonnes are exported in 2018 by Groupe industriel des ciments d’Algérie (GICA – Industrial Cement Group of Algeria), the Swiss company LafargeHolcim Ltd and the local Biskria Cement SPA.  Abdesselem Bouab, general manager of the port of Djendjen, underlined that the port expects to accelerate cement export operations in 2019 to a total of 2.5 million tonnes.
4/10/18, www.portseurope.com

Cement faces significant challenges in reducing CO2 emissions and the key levers to cutting carbon emissions from cement production are improving energy efficiency, switching to lower-carbon fuels, reducing the clinker-to-cement ratio, and advancing process and technology innovation. According to IEA report, the clinker-to-cement ratio must continue to fall to a global average of 0.64 by 2030, through increased use of blended cements and clinker substitutes, including industrial by-products such as blast furnace slag or fly ash. In the long run, alternative clinker replacements that are widely available, such as calcined clay in combination with limestone, become more important, as the decarbonisation of power generation and iron and steel making reduces the availability of these industrial by-products.

• Find out more from Association Professionnelle des Cimentiers (APC) of Morocco on the competitiveness of cement market in morocco & growth driver
• CIMAT shares their perspective on cement market in Sub-Sahara Africa 
• Gain first-hand information from LafargeHolcim Maroc Afrique on investing in greenfield and brownfield cement plant across West and Central Africa 
• Limak’s view on Africa’s construction and cement sector
• Global cement outlook, investment and M&A potential to be analysed by IA Cement
• Cementis provides LC3 update & the financial attractiveness
• ThyssenKrupp shares how can Lab automation improve African cement producer’s profitability and production efficiency?
• Gebr Pfeiffer speaks on the future trends in cement grinding for local markets
• Hear from AfDB their views on Africa cement markets and financing in Africa 
• Find out the latest innovation from Wacker Chemicals
• Get the latest insights on competition & opportunities in east africa’s cement markets from Savannah Cement
• SECIL, Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento discusses clinker/cement markets in Tunisia and supply into West Africa
• Get latest update on cement markets in Nigeria, Algeria and Ethiopia

 

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