Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad inaugurated on Thursday Lafarge Group subsidiary Geocycle’s EGP 200 mn alternative fuel factory in Suez, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The facility is estimated to be the largest of its kind in the MENA region and is able to produce 400k tonnes of alternative fuel a year. The output will be directed to LaFarge’s cement factory in Ain Sokhna. LaFarge has already developed a EUR 8 mn alternative fuel feeding system in its Ain Sokhna plant, Egypt CEO Hussein Mansy separately said, according to Al Mal.
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