Hakan Gürdal has been appointed as the managing director of Morocco’ s Ciments du Maroc, a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement, according to the Telquel newspaper. Gürdal, who succeeds Nabil Francis, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Yildiz in Istanbul, and has an MBA in International Management from the University of Istanbul. He then joined Çanakkale Çimento in 1992. In 2016, he was appointed as a member of the board of directors of HeidelbergCement, and has since been in charge of the Africa-Eastern Mediterranean region. Since the beginning of 2017, he has been responsible for purchasing.
The board of Nigerian Stock Exchange-listed( NSE) Lafarge Africa, a subsidiary of Lafarge Holcim, has approved the company’ s merger with the United Cement Company of Nigeria( Unicem) and Atlas Cement Company following the approval of the necessary regulatory bodies, according to the Nigerian Tribune. According to a statement signed by company secretary Edith Onwuchekwa, the board authorised the company to“ undertake a business combination / merger with Unicem and Atlas Cement Company Limited” and to“ enter into any agreement and do all that is necessary to negotiate and implement the merger among UniCem and Atlas.” Onwuchekwa stressed that Lafarge“ will seek the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission( SEC) and all other relevant regulatory bodies in furtherance of the implementation of the merger.”
The cement plant at BUA Group’ s Obu Cement factory in Okpella, Edo State,
Nigeria, was officially commissioned by Nigerian vice-president Yemi Osinbajo on 30 August 2017. Osinbajo was also present for the ground breaking of the plant’ s three million-tonne-per-year second line, which will double the USD1-billion plant’ s annual production capacity. According to BUA Group chairman / CEO Abdulsamad Rabiu, the plant is engineered to be the most environmentally friendly cement plant in Africa with advanced duct emission systems, and uses natural gas for both the kiln and the power plant. BUA has also started construction of a USD300-million greenfield cement plant in Sokoto State, with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes, which will be commissioned in 2018.
Sew-Eurodrive SA achieves export success with its IE3-compliant motors
To comply with the increasingly stringent requirements of energy-efficiency class IE3 in the European Union( EU), Sew- Eurodrive South Africa decided to introduce the new DRN series as its standard range of electric motors. This is of particular benefit to the OEM’ s crossborder customers, who have to comply with international‘ green’ requirements.
Recent successes in this regard include a major order for a Zimbabwean tobacco company.
The new DRN range effectively sets a benchmark for energy efficiency in the industry, meaning that customers buying
Sew-Eurodrive
The entire order was dispatched to Zimbabwe by Sew-Eurodrive South Africa on 28 pallets in a single long-haul load truck.
Sew-Eurodrive gearboxes from Sew-Eurodrive South Africa automatically receive IE3-compliant motors. This was the main selling point with the Zimbabwean project, which saw the tobacco company move away from competitor products in order to standardise on Sew-Eurodrive.
“ What opened the door for us here were the main technological advantages of our motors, namely the premium IE3 efficiency, together with the IP 65 rating and Class H insulation, which makes these units ideal for the application,” Sew-Eurodrive South Africa export engineer Philip Steyn comments.
A particular feature of this project is that Sew-Eurodrive arranged the transportation as well, with the entire order dispatched on 28 pallets in a
The premium energy efficiency of the IE3-compliant DRN range is resulting in export success for Sew-Eurodrive South Africa.
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