Displaying items by tag: Middle East and North Africa region

Algeria: Lafarge Algeria has launched Chamil cement, a 40% reduced-CO₂ cement, which contains locally sourced clay and ferrous materials. The producer developed Chamil cement based on technology from the Rouiba Construction Development Laboratory.

Lafarge Algeria aims to achieve export volumes of 3Mt across its product range in 2022.

Middle East/North Africa: The World Cement Association (WCA) has called on its members in the Middle East and North African cement sectors to take new actions towards industry decarbonisation. UAE-based consultant and WCA member A3 & Co has said that companies in the region have the potential to cut their carbon footprints by up to 30% with no new capital expenditure required. The Middle East and North Africa accounted for 15% of global cement production in 2021. In the region, only the UAE and Saudi Arabia have committed to national net zero carbon targets, for 2050 and 2060 respectively.

WCA CEO Ian Riley said “There has been a lot of discussion in Europe and North America about decarbonisation roadmaps for the cement industry and good work has been done to start on this journey. However, 90% of the world’s cement is produced and used in developing countries; to impact overall industry emissions we must include these stakeholders. Cement companies in the Middle East have some low hanging fruit to take advantage of, which will lower costs at the same time as reducing CO2 emissions. At WCA we have a number of programmes that can help them realise this opportunity."

Jordan: Vortex Global, a US solids and bulk handling components company, has appointed Smart Systems for Factories Operation & Maintenance as its agent in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Qatar and Yemen. Smart is a Middle Eastern supplier of dedusting systems, including industrial ventilations systems, shut off valves, loading spouts and filters.

"Smart has the ability to provide our customers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with any type of equipment for mineral industries including the cement, potash and phosphate industries," said Laurence Millington, Vortex’s Director of International Business. "We are delighted to have Smart represent us now and going into the future.”

Smart Systems was established in 2007 as a specialised technical and turnkey solution provider for the cement and mineral industries. The Smart team consists of project managers, mining experts, operation managers and maintenance managers in mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, erection and utilities aspects.