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Pharaon Investment looking to offload Attock stake

30 December 2024

Pakistan: Lebanon's Pharaon Investment Group Limited is reportedly considering the sale of its 84% stake in Attock Cement Pakistan, according to Pakistan Today. The holding company recently announced that it was re-evaluating its long-term strategic options in Pakistan, which also include Attock Petroleum, Attock Oil Company and Attock Refinery.

Attock Cement has been 'battered' by low demand in the Pakistani cement industry in recent years, following a period of expansion in the early 2010s. It produced 0.31Mt of cement in the first quarter of the 2025 financial year (to 30 September 2024), an 11% year-on-year fall from 0.35Mt a year earlier.

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Vassilis Mavridis appointed as Group Chief Operating Officer at ACICO Group

11 January 2023

Kuwait: ACICO Group has appointed Vassilis Mavridis as its Group Chief Operating Officer for Factories. He previously worked for Sibline as its Chief Operating Officer in Lebanon. Prior to this he worked for Titan Cement in Greece for around 18 years, eventually becoming the plant manager of the Thessaloniki Plant from 2003 to 20211 (2021 or 2011?). Mavridis holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and qualifications from Cranfield University in the UK and the Harvard Business School.

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Cimenterie Nationale to stop cement dispatches

05 March 2021

Lebanon: Cimenterie Nationale has announced that it will dispatch its last batch of cement for the foreseeable future on 6 March 2021. The L’Orient-Le Jour newspaper has reported the cause for the stoppage as the exhaustion of stocks of raw materials. The Lebanese government suspended access by cement producers to their quarries in October 2020. The nation’s three cement companies are permitted only to produce cement using clinker or limestone from existing stockpiles.

The company currently has 700 employees. It said that 3500 other jobs depend indirectly on its activities.

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Lebanese government conducts u-turn on cement imports

10 February 2021

Lebanon: The Ministry of Industry has reversed a recent decision to allow cement imports into the country. Following a meeting with local cement producers, Minister Imad Hobballah declared that allowing imports would decrease official selling prices rapidly, according to the L'Orient-Le Jou newspaper. Local producers have reported low sales due to a strict coronavirus-related lockdown that started in January 2021. Cimenterie Nationale reportedly stopped production in early February 2021 due to a lack of raw materials.

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Lebanese minister blocks licence for Al Arz Cement plant project

01 April 2019

Lebanon: Industry Minister Wael Abu Faour has revoked the license of the Al Arz Cement plant project. It follows protests by local residents, according to the Daily Star newspaper. A report by environmental non-government organisation (NGO) Green Globe ranked the region as the 11th most polluted area in the country due to quarrying and crusher activity. The cement plant project was launched in 2017 by entrepreneur Pierre Fattoush.

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Lebanese residents protest against Al Arz Cement plant project

15 March 2019

Lebanon: Residents of Ain Dara near Aley have protested at the Industry Ministry against the decision to grant a licence to the Al Arz Cement plant project. The protestors object on environmental grounds, according to the Daily Star newspaper. In a statement the ministry said that the plant would conform to environmental regulations. The project was launched in 2017 by entrepreneur Pierre Fattoush.

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Environmental group protests against cement plants in Lebanon

16 April 2018

Lebanon: Residents in Koura district has demanded that nearby cement plants be closed and cement exports banned due to health fears. George Costantine al-Itani, the environmental committee coordinator for Kfar Hazir issues a list of demands, according to the Daily Star newspaper. The group wants local cement plants in the area to move out of residential areas, close down unauthorised quarries and replace petcoke usage with natural gas. In the longer term the group wants the government to plant trees on cement company land and decrease the cost of local cement. Local company Cimenterie Nationale and Switzerland’s LafargeHolcim operate cement plants in the region.

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Cimenterie Nationale installs new filter at Chekka plant

27 June 2017

Lebanon: Cimenterie Nationale has officially inaugurated a new bag filter at its Chekka cement plant. The new filter is expected to reduce dust, NOx and SO2 emissions by more than half, according to the L'Orient-Le Jour newspaper. The filter has been in operation since late May 2017.

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LafargeHolcim expands retail network for construction materials in Middle East and Africa

15 June 2017

Middle East/Africa: LafargeHolcim is expanding its specialised Binastore retail network for construction materials in Middle East and Africa. The construction materials producer already operates 500 stores in the region that serves end-consumers, self-builders, masons and smaller contractors. The newly-branded network will sell a broad range of LafargeHolcim’s own products and solutions as well as a variety of other construction materials from partner suppliers.

The first stores operating under the Binastore brand have begun to serve customers in Algeria, Cameroon, Iraq and Lebanon. The format of the stores will vary with sizes from 50m2 to 2000m2 and it will also include mobile stores in some rural locations. Existing stores in the region will gradually be rebranded as Binastore, while new stores will also open under this brand.

“Our vision is to build the largest retail network for construction materials in the Middle East Africa region so the Binastore brand becomes a household name for small and medium-size builders. Building on our success in Algeria, our goal is to deliver a range of building products, including our own, through multiple channels to meet the needs and lifestyle of our customers who are becoming more and more sophisticated,” said Saâd Sebbar, Region Head Middle East Africa.

The Binastore network is part of LafargeHolcim’s long-term strategy of expanding its retail business in emerging markets. In April 2017, the group announced the rollout of Disensa, a similar concept, in Latin America, where the goal is to have a network of around 1000 stores operating by the end of 2017.

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Intercem building hot gas system for coal mill at LafargeHolcim plant in Lebanon

08 September 2016

Lebanon: Intercem is building a hot gas system for a coal mill at the LafargeHolcim Chekka plant. The engineering company won the contract for the job in 2015. It is the second such contract for Intercem to build a hot gas system following a previous project at a plant in Jordan in 2013.

The new hot gas system in the coal mill plant in Chekka connects the preheater with the coal mill and comprises a hot gas duct with a length of 360m and a diameter of 900mm. The process data of the hot gas outlet of the heat exchanger are of 18,500Nm3/hour at 400°C.

The turnkey scope of supply and services for the project includes:

  • Project management
  • As-built-survey of the existing plant using 3D-Laser scanning
  • Review of the statics of the existing steel structure and concrete construction
  • Process- and detail engineering
  • Supply of the mechanical equipment including steel structure
  • Coordination of the locally produced components
  • Supply of the electrical equipment including clarification of connections and integration into the existing control systems
  • Execution of the complete foundation works
  • Transport management
  • Electrical and mechanical assembly of the plant
  • Commissioning of the hot gas system
  • Training of the operating team

In addition ducts, a cyclone, a process fan and several control dampers, compensators, the complete instrumentation and automation as well as a new recirculation duct with two control dampers at the existing vertical coal mill have been supplied.

Handover to the customer is planned for fourth quarter of 2016.

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