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| Arcadis wins project management contract in Brazil Dutch international engineering firm Arcadis announced that its Brazilian subsidiary Arcadis Logos has signed a US$ 37 million contract with Brazil's largest cement company Votorantim Cimentos, which is ranked among the top 10 biggest cement producers in the world and the fifth largest private sector company in Brazil. The contract will have a duration of 26 months and is part of a large expansion program by Votorantim in Brazil. Arcadis Logos will lead a consortium of companies and will take care of 70% of the contract itself. The group will provide project management services for the implementation of 4 complete cement plants in the states of Paraná, Mato Grosso, Goiás and Pará. The project completion is foreseen by January 2013, when the plants will produce, altogether, 6.4 million ton/year. At the peak of the works, there will be a staff of about 120 Arcadis Logos employees working on the four job sites. The contract is part of a large expansion program that Votorantim launched in Brazil to increase the production capacity from 27 to 42 million tons of cement annually in 2013. The company is investing around US$ 3.0 billion during the period 2007-2013 to build new plants in order to meet the fast growing demand of cement in Brazil. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |