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THE BIG PICTURE
01 UNITED KINGDOM
03 GERMANY
Snorkel begins full production on lithiumpowered roughterrain scissor lifts
Siemens to build major green hydrogen plant in Germany
Access equipment major Snorkel has announced the commencement of full production on five lithiumion battery powered compact rough terrain scissor lift models. These scissor lifts are designed to offer “a true zero emission rough terrain solution, without compromising on the reliability and four-wheel drive capabilities” of the diesel equivalents. The five new ‘RTE’ electric rough terrain scissor lifts are now in production in Snorkel’s assembly facilities in the UK and New Zealand.
02 UNITED KINGDOM
Saudi-owned Cleveland Bridge falls into administration due to COVID-19 Engineering and steel fabrication firm Cleveland Bridge has fallen into administration as a result of delays on several of its global infrastructure projects, bought on by the outbreak of COVID-19. The firm is owned by Saudi-based Al Rushaid Group. Joint administrators Martyn Pullin, David Willis, and Iain Townsend of specialist business advisory firm FRP have been appointed to help save the firm. The firm has 221 staff at its Darlington HQ and a satellite office in Newport.
Siemens has marked the start of construction of one of the largest green hydrogen plants in Germany with the official ground-breaking ceremony for the project in Wunsiedel, Germany, it has announced. In a statement, the energy solutions provider said the plant will have a capacity of 8.75MW, and that it will produce up to 1,350 tons of hydrogen per year using only renewable energy (solar or wind power). It added that the use of the generated hydrogen in transportation and industry will allow for CO2 savings of up to 13,500 tons annually.
04 IVORY COAST
06 KENYA
BESIX awarded contract for tallest tower in Africa
Randon Implementos to set up Kenyan assembly plant
BESIX has been awarded a major contract to provide site management, as well as the civil engineering works for a skyscraper in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, which will be the tallest tower in Africa. Standing at 935 feet, the F Tower is a project being developed by PFO Africa, with the support of the Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Urban Planning. It is the second project associating PFO Africa and BESIX and carried out for the Ivorian government, following the La Mé drinking water plant, which is currently under construction.
August 2021 | MEConstructionNews.com
05 RWANDA
ADFD signs $15m loan for Rwandan road project The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has signed a loan agreement with the government of Rwanda to provide a $15 million concessionary loan to finance the construction and development of the Rubengera-Muhanga road project, which stretches across a distance of 61 kilometres. The project aims to renovate and expand the road linking the two cities to enhance traffic flow between them, as well as facilitating access to social, health and educational services, driving economic sectors, such as agriculture, tourism, and transportation, and trade.
Brazilian trailer OEM Randon Implementos is set to build a CKD (Completely Knocked Down) assembly unit in Kenya alongside JAP Africa, a subsidiary of Portuguese conglomerate JAP. A strategic agreement between the two commits both entities to the local assembly of semi-trailers. The platform and tipper sets are shipped from Brazil to be assembled and commercialised by the local partner. The expectation is for continuous growth in terms of market share in the next few years, reaching neighbouring countries such as Tanzania and Uganda.
