BAM Ritchies has been awarded a contract by Granutogo (a HeidelbergCement company) to carry out primary drilling and blasting of between 300,000-600,000tonnes/year from a rock outcrop close to the township of Agbelouve, Togo, West Africa identified as Amelekpe Migmatite on the featured map of Togo. The quarry will be developed by BAM Ritchies in benches of 10-15m in depth. BAM Ritchies will provide profiling, surveying, drilling and shot-firing services as well as explosives and initiation accessories. Gran
BAM Ritchies has been awarded a contract by Granutogo (a HeidelbergCement company) to carry out primary drilling and blasting of between 300,000-600,000tonnes/year from a rock outcrop close to the township of Agbelouve, Togo, West Africa identified as Amelekpe Migmatite on the featured map of Togo.
The quarry will be developed by BAM Ritchies in benches of 10-15m in depth.
BAM Ritchies will provide profiling, surveying, drilling and shot-firing services as well as explosives and initiation accessories.
Granutogo will produce aggregates for concrete production from the quarry to sell to the local construction market and to support existing group cement production capabilities within Togo at the capital Lome and its new production facility being built at Tabligbo.HeidelbergCement is also investing €30 million constructing a 700,000tonnes/year cement mill at its Wazo Hill plant, Tanzania, 25km north-west of the coastal metropolis of Dar es Salaam.
The investment includes the construction of new clinker and cement silos as well as the installation of new cement bag packing and dispatch facilities. Commissioning of the new mill is scheduled for late 2014, about the same time as a €115 million greenfield cement grinding facility in Burkina Faso is opened.The facility, with a capacity of 650,000tonnes/year, is now being constructed by HeidelbergCement and local partners near the capital city of Ouagadougou.
“The construction of the new cement grinding plant is part of our strategy of expanding our clinker and cement capacities in growth markets. These include, in particular, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa,” says Dr Bernd Scheifele, chairman of the managing board of HeidelbergCement.
“For many years, we have exported cement to Burkina Faso from our grinding plant in Togo. Our new plant will strengthen our position in the country as well as in the whole region.”
HeidelbergCement’s grinding facilities in Burkina Faso and in the neighbouring countries of Togo, Benin, and partly also in Ghana will in the future receive their clinker from the new clinker plant in Togo when it is commissioned.
