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Sweden/Colombia: Swedish engineering firm SKF has signed a three-year deal with Cementos Argos to provide engineering products and services for its operations in Colombia. SKF will provide everything from bearings, housings and seals to training and application engineering, to support Argos' operations in 10 plants throughout the country. Argos has expanded the scope of the agreement to include seals and more bearing products than SKF had supplied previously.

"SKF has an extensive partnership to support Argos in maximising the utilisation and reliability of its assets, thereby achieving its business objectives," said Vartan Vartanian, President, SKF Industrial Market, Regional Sales and Service. The deal expands SKF's existing contract for maintenance services, mechanical services, reliability engineering services and condition monitoring solutions for conveyors, gearboxes and mills at four of Cementos Argos' plants in Colombia.

Sweden: Following the devastating hurricane in the Philippines, Sweden's Cementa AB has announced that it will donate its annual Christmas gift of Euro22,400 to Médicins sans Frontières (MSF) (Doctors Without Borders), which is operating in the worst-affected regions.

The move makes a break with Cementa's traditional method of splitting its Christmas gift to several organisations. The company said that the need was so great in selected regions that it had decided instead to support only one organisation in 2013.

"We see this as a chance to actively do something for the affected areas in the Philippines," said Fredrik Jansson, Vice President Sales and Marketing at Cementa AB. "Hopefully others in the construction industry (will support) the same initiatives in support of the affected areas."

Sweden: Cementa is developing a new cement that uses fly ash for sale by 2015. The project is part of the Swedish subsidiary of HeidelbergCement's drive to reduce its carbon emissions by 2030 and to meet the growing environmental requirements of its customers.

"We see this as a natural further step in our vision of zero carbon emissions by 2030," said Fredrik Jansson, Vice President and Marketing Director at Cementa.

Sweden: Åke Erikssson is the newly appointed manager of the Höganäs Bjuf Asia Pacific operation, shown here (left) together with the managing director Erik Olsen.

Höganäs Bjuf Asia Pacific provide services to the cement producers in the Asia Pacific region and will in the future also start with installation services.