Lafarge partners with Lankan contractor on international projects
View(s):Lafarge, a world leader in building materials, is growing its partnership with Dynamic Technologies, a Sri Lankan contractor, to develop a 4,000 ton cement silo in the Seychelles. This would be the seventh international project collaborated jointly by the two organisations, the cement company said.
Dynamic Technologies is no stranger to Lafarge Mahaweli Cement. Asoka Dharmawardana, Managing Director of Dynamic, commenting on their long standing association with the company, says they have practically grown up with Lafarge. “Our expansion began with Lafarge Mahaweli Cement contracting us to build their cement plant in the Colombo port back in the early 1980s.
This provided us with the opportunity to expand locally and that was the beginning of our diversification. Now we have successfully moved on to the international arena with our expertise and the use of advanced technology”.
Dynamic Technologies has so far worked with Lafarge in Sudan twice – initially in 2004 for a flat storage capacity and more recently in 2013 to dismantle 4 steel silos. They worked together on the Lafarge plant in Maldives in 2000 and recently completed a 4,000 ton cement silo in Maldives earlier this year. In 2001, Dynamic developed the packing line for Lafarge’s plant in Mayotte. And the two companies worked together again to develop a 4,000 ton silo in Mayotte earlier this year. The silo for the new plant in the Seychelles will be fabricated in Sri Lanka and shipped to the Island.
Arnauld Haemers, Technical Performance Manager of Lafarge Cementia in Zurich says that Sri Lankan engineering is coming of age and Lafarge as a world leader in the cement and building materials industry wants to give due recognition to this fact.