Items filtered by date: 09 October 2018

Russia: Filaret Galchev, the chairman of Eurocement, and Vladimir Sushkov, the chairman of the government of the Republic of Mordovia, has officially opened a Euro65m grinding unit at the Mordovcement plant. The new grinding unit includes two ball mills with a production capacity of 2.6Mt/yr, a 50,000t clinker warehouse and rail and truck despatch silos. Eurocement used equipment from Christian Pfeiffer, Claudius Peters, Aumund and KHD for the upgrade project at its subsidiary.

Mozambique: Singapore’s Compact Metal Industries has failed to buy a majority stake in a partially built cement plant at Salamanga, Bela Vista in Maputo Province. Compact Metal Industries was planning to pay US$30m for a 51% stake in the plant in a deal with SPI and Guhavam, according to the Business Times of Singapore newspaper. The arrangement would have also seen Compact Metal Industries settle the project’s debts to suppliers and contractors to a value of US$55m.