Iran: Data released by the Industry, Mining and Trade Ministry reveals that the country produced just over 48Mt of cement in the first nine months of the local calendar year that started on 21 March 2022. This fell slightly, by 1% year-on-year, from the previous year, according to the Tehran Times newspaper. In 2021 the country produced 63Mt of cement and exported 14.4Mt. Exports grew by 4% year-on-year to 7.6Mt in the first seven months of the current calendar year.

Germany: Korfez Eng. is supplying internals for a new Ø 4.40m mill shell being installed for an unnamed cement plant in Eastern Europe. All mill internals for this project have been designed and supplied by Korfez Eng. and Korfez Foundry in Türkiye. The total delivery weight of the Korfez supplied mill internal parts exceeds 150t.

Ivory Coast: The Council of Ministers has approved cement producers to use dolomite in place of limestone to reduce imports from Europe and Asia. The government said that it had conducted the necessary tests supporting the change in the local cement standard, according to the Agence Ivoirienne de Presse. The Ministry of Industry and other related government departments have been instructed to take action to support the change.

Kazakhstan: Germany-based ScrapeTec has signed a deal with Flow Energy to supply its products for the conveyor system of an unnamed client. The agreement will mark the first large-scale entry of ScrapeTec into the Kazak-based mining sector.

Flow Energy is a Kazakhstan–based supplier of pump products that has diversified into providing agitators, filters and crushing and screening equipment. ScrapeTec produces equipment for critical points in conveyor systems that handle bulk handling.