Ivory Coast: Morocco’s Ciments de l'Afrique (CIMAF) has started work on a 0.3Mt/yr cement plant at Bouake. The company has acquired land for the project and is currently preparing the necessary permits to begin construction, according to the African Press Agency.

CIMAF built its first 0.5Mt grinding plant in Abidjan in 2013. The production capacity at this unit was then increased to 1Mt/yr in 2016. In late 2017 the cement producer started building a second 1Mt/yr plant at San Pedro. The latest project at Bouake will be its third plant in the country.

Bangladesh: LafargeHolcim Bangladesh has replaced the belt of a 17km conveyor that transports limestone from a quarry in Meghalaya in India to its Surma cement plant in Bangladesh. The upgrade project was carried out in two phases with the latest finished in mid-April 2018, according to the Daily Star newspaper. The belt was replaced to reduce noise from the system. It was first built in 2004.

Ghana/Portugal: Cimpor and ETE Group have collaborated to export 55,900t of clinker from Portugal to Ghana. The clinker was transferred via barges from the river terminal of Cimpor’s Alhandra cement plant before being loaded into a bulk carrier at the Port of Lisbon, according to CE NoticiasFinancieras.

Bangladesh: Two workers have been killed at the cement grinding plant at Paschim Muktarpur in Munshiganj operated by Crown Cement. The workers died after being struck by falling material when entering a room at the site to clean it, according to the New Nation newspaper. Another worker was critically injured in the incident.