India: The government of Andhra Pradesh terminated JC Company subsidiary Trishul Cement’s limestone extraction lease of an area in Konappalapadu, Ananthapurama District, which had previously been extended for five years in 2015, for the company’s failure to establish an integrated cement plant in the area. The state-government also revoked a 20-year lease granted in mid-2007 of a plot of land for a cement plant on which no work had been undertaken. Hans India News has reported that JC Company has dissolved Trishul Cements by incorporation.

Togo: Germany’s Intercem Engineering has been awarded a contract by CimMetal Group to build a 2.5Mt/yr cement grinding plant in Lomé. The opening ceremony for the project is expected to take place soon and production is scheduled to start in early 2021. No value for the order has been disclosed.

The order includes a 1000t/hr truck unloading station, a 25,000t/hr storage facility for additives, a 1000t/hr truck loading station, two 50,000t clinker silos, four packing machines, eight truck loading stations, 10 truck scales and the corresponding laboratory equipment. The steel construction, the entire sheet metal fabrication, the subsystems, the electrical equipment, the complete engineering, the supervision of erection and commissioning are also included in the scope of supply and services. All of the equipment will be supplied by European manufacturers. All material conveyors have a capacity of 1200t/hr and are installed in a closed gallery to ensure dust-free transport. This was planned because of the location in the immediate vicinity of the port in Lomé.

Mexico: Cemex has announced that it is currently helping 45,000 young people across 11 countries to improve their employability through such initiatives as its New Employment Opportunities (NEO) initiative, which provides industry training to disadvantaged Caribbean and Latin American youths. The company says it aims to positively impact more than 65,000 youngsters by 2022 through its initiatives including awards programmes and volunteering schemes and its partnership with the Global Alliance for Youth (All4YOUth), through which it aims to promote skills.

India: Wonder Cement has launched a new 2Mt/yr grinding plant at Badnawar in Madhya Pradesh. It follows the company’s first grinding plant at Dhule in Maharashtra that was launched in mid-2018, according to the Pioneer newspaper. The cement producer plans to open a third grinding plant at Jhajjar in Haryana to reach a combined production capacity of 13Mt/yr in 2020. The new grinding units have a cost of US$112m.