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Belgium: Magotteaux has launched Expand, a vertical roller mill (WRM) wear parts product line for the cement industry. The equipment supplier says that the range offers high resistance, consistent production, energy efficiency and lower maintenance and replacement frequency. It also uses a scrap buy-back program to consider product lifecycle concerns. The wear parts line comes in two variants: Expand One, the standard metal matrix composite (MMC) product; and the higher performance Expand+.

Germany: Beumer Group says it is supporting logistics start-up Sparrow Networks with its Beam spin-off company. Sparrow Networks consists of a spare parts pool of interconnected cement industry players. Customers can access the inventory on Sparrow Networks’ digital marketplace. Beam is a Berlin-based start-up company builder, supported by Beumer Group, that focuses on logistics and technical challenges.

Ethiopia: Dangote Cement is building a bagging plant and a third silo at its Mugher cement plant. The US$19m bagging plant will have a capacity of 120 million bags/yr, according to the Ethiopian Reporter newspaper. It is scheduled for completion by July 2017. The silo should be completed by the third quarter of the year.

Deep Kamara, the managing director of Dangote Industries Ethiopia, also said that the company is considering building a second production line in the country. However, procuring spare parts is proving difficult for the plant due to shortages of foreign currency and delays in shipping new parts. The company is expecting help from the government and it needs to spend up to US$15m on spare parts for the plant.

The Mugher cement plant opened in 2015 with a cement production capacity of 2.5Mt/yr. Equipment at the plant was set on fire in late 2016 in a series of riots in the region.

Saudi Arabia: Aumund Fördertechnik and Sweidan Industrial Services have opened new spare parts stock at their Riyadh warehouse. In addition a local Aumund supervisor will be present to support customers.