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| Lafarge inaugurates two new production lines Lafarge, the world's top cement maker, inaugurated on May 14th a new production line in its Otalavo cement plant, in Imbabura Province, Ecuador, 110 km north of the capital city Quito. It represents an investment of US$ 120M and doubles the cement production capacity of Lafarge in Ecuador, which now reaches 1.6 million tonnes per year. The new production line is operational since the beginning of the year. Lafarge also announced that Unicem, a joint venture of Lafarge (28%), Holcim (28%), Dangote (22%) and Flour Mills (22%) inaugurated on May 12 its new cement plant at Mfamosing, in Cross River State, Nigeria. Located less than one hundred kilometers south-east of Calabar, capital of Cross River State, the new plant has a capacity of 2.5 million tons of cement. It has been built by the consortium FLS / OIC on behalf of Unicem. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |