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Burkina Faso: Harouna Kaboré, the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Handicraft, has inaugurated a new mill at Cimburkina’s cement grinding plant at Kossodo in Ouagadougou. By installing the new mill the unit has doubled it production capacity to 2Mt/yr, according to the Sidwaya newspaper. The upgrade cost US$25m.

François Sangline, the director general of the subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement, said that the 2000t limestone silo feeds the production line consisting of two 150t/hr cement grinding mills. This is followed by a 120t/hr bagging unit. Sangline noted that the country’s cement consumption of 2.5Mt/yr is below the domestic cement production capacity of 6Mt/yr. Due to this he lobbied the government to protect local production against imports and fraud.

Algeria: El-Hamel Sidi Moussa group’s Timegten cement plant has made its first 2000t export to Niger. The Chinese-Algerian joint venture used the Freight Transport and Logistics Group (Logitrans) to make the delivery overland via the In-Guezzam border crossing, according to Radio Algeria. The 1.2Mt/yr plant plans to target other countries, including Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso.

The Euro156m plant was commissioned in 2017. It is being run under a seven-year cooperation agreement where the Chinese partners manage the unit until the local workforce is trained. The plant also manufactures oil well cement.

Burkina Faso: Cimasso has produced the first bag of cement at its new 2.6Mt/yr grinding plant at Bobo Dioulasso. The subsidiary of Cim Metal Group met the milestone in early November 2018, according to the Le Pays newspaper. The official inauguration of the unit is planned for the end of November 2018. It follows first production at Ciments de Côte d’Ivoire’s (Cimivoire) 3Mt/yr grinding plant in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast in September 2018. Cimivoire is another subsidiary of Cim Metal Group. The plant was built using loans from the West African Development Bank (BOAD).

Burkina Faso: A new cement plant project being built in Bobo-Dioulasso has drawn complaints from local residents and businesses. The unit is being built in an agricultural indstury section of the city and local companies fear that dust from plant might damage their products, according to the Le Pays newspaper. Food from the region is exported to Europe. Morocco’s Ciments de l'Afrique (CIMAF) announced that it had started building a grinding plant in Bobo-Dioulasso in mid-2016.

Burkina Faso: Assam Daoud has become the president of the Burkina Faso Cement Association. The director general of Ciments de l'Afrique (CIMAF) succeeds Hippolyte Guinguéré, the commercial director of Diamond Cement. Daoud will hold the post for one year. The association has also recently inaugurated its new headquarters.

Burkina Faso: The Ministry of Mines and Quarries has signed a limestone mining deal with Sahelian Mining, a subsidiary of Diamond Cement Burkina. The deal covers mineral rights for the Sahel region, according to the Sidwaya newspaper. The agreement is intended to diversify the country’s mineral production. Diamond Cement Burkina oprates a cement grinding plant at Ouagadougou.

Burkina Faso: Cimburkina has started upgrading its Kossodo cement grinding plant. The US$2.85m project will centre on the installation of a new mill. This will double its production capacity to 2Mt/yr, according to the Sidwaya newspaper. Other works will include a new 2000t limestone silo and a new bagging unit. The new mill is scheduled to start production in December 2018.

The plant, a subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement, produces two types of cement: CEM II 42.5 R and CEM II BL 32.5 R. Clinker for production comes from the group’s Scantogo plant in Togo.

Burkina Fasa: The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has granted a US$10m short term loan to Ciments de l'Afrique (CIMAF) for the import of raw materials for the production of cement to be sold locally. Morocco’s CIMAF operates a cement grinding plant at Ouagadougou and it is building another at Bobo-Dioulasso that is expected to be completed in mid-2018.

Burkina Faso: Intercem has reported that it replaced the main transformer at the Cimfaso Cement plant in 10 days in February 2017 from the initial order to the resumption of production at the unit. Following a problem with the local power grid the transformer was damaged and production stopped. Intercem dismantled and flew the transformer from Germany to Burkina Faso and then supervised its reassembly, connection and commissioning including customs and visa clearance.

Burkina Faso: Intercem has released details of a cement grinding plant that it is building with Kanis International Group for Cimasso in Bobo Dioulasso. The order is the third contract between Kanis International and Intercem and it is the largest such order in Intercem’s history. The contract was agreed in March 2016 and groundbreaking of the 6500t/day plant took place in late May 2016. No value for the order has been disclosed.

Intercem’s scope of supply for Cimasso comprises the engineering, the supply of mechanical and electrical equipment of exclusively European origin, the project management and the supervision of erection as well as the commissioning. The order includes: train unloading station for clinker; truck unloading for lime and additives; storage of 100,000t of clinker and raw materials; raw material shed and dosing station; 6500t/day cement grinding plant with vertical roller mill; four 4000t cement silos; and, 8000t/day loading of cement bags, including a truck loading station.