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Ametek Brookfield appoints Vicki Case as Global Marketing Director
Written by Global Cement staff
04 July 2018
US: Ametek Brookfield has appointed Vicki Case as Global Marketing Director. She has spent the past 12 years working at Sealed Air in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. Most recently she worked as the VP Marketing, Global e-Commerce & Fulfillment Solutions for the company. Case is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering.
Botswana to restrict cement imports 04 July 2018
Botswana: The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry plans to restrict imports of cement following the introduction of new legislation. It will require 70% of cement to be sourced from local producers with only 30% allowed to be imported, according to the Weekend Post newspaper. The Control of Goods, Prices and Other Charges Act was announced in April 2018. An import permit scheme is scheduled to start in September 2018. The new regulations are intended to regulate trade with South Africa better.
Dangote Cement opens terminal in Imo state 04 July 2018
Nigeria: Dangote Cement has opened a terminal at Owerri in Imo State. The unit was officially inaugurated by the governor of the state, Chief Rochas Okorocha with the president of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, also in attendance, according to the This Day newspaper. In a speech Dangote said that the state was one of the ‘major’ markets domestically for the company.
Argentina: Cement consumption rose by 7% year-on-year to 5.85Mt in the first half of 2018 from 5.49Mt in the same period in 2017. Data from the Asociación de Fabricantes de Cemento Portland (AFCP) also showed that despatches rose by 7% to 5.86Mt from 5.49Mt. However, both consumption and despatches for May and June 2018 fell.
US: Welding Alloys has released information about a project to rebuild a FCB Horomill at Buzzi Unicem’s Maryneal cement plant in Texas in early 2018. The engineering company’s Mexican subsidiary Welding Alloys Panamericana has experience of rebuilding these types of mills and it collaborated with the group’s American wing, Welding Alloys USA, on the project.