Jambyl Cement’s Mynaral packing plant, where  1.5Mt of cement was bagged in 2018. Source: Vicat.

The ‘Stans’ are five varied and vibrant nations - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - embarking on their fourth decade of independence. Here, Global Cement looks into this region where oil and ideology, technology and tradition and East and West meet and mix - with no small volume of cement.

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Coronavirus

This is the coronavirus cement industry hub page from Global Cement. It includes dedicated features and resources on the topic as well as all the latest related industry news and comment. We'll be inlcuding more information as we have it so check back regularly to stay up to date.

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Bert van Elten (left) has been Managing Director of Eltomation since 1992

Ahead of the Global CemBoards Conference in Munich, Germany, Global Cement spoke to Bert van Elten, Managing Director of the Dutch wood wool cement board (WWCB) equipment manufacturer Eltomation, about his company’s history, products and how he sees the global cement board sector in 2020.

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