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Lafarge Egypt, a member of LafargeHolcim Group, has pumped 200 million Egyptian pounds to carryout projects that expand in the usage of household wastes as an alternative energy source, its CEO Hussein Mansi said.
He pointed that the size of alternative energies of household waste has reached to 1,000 tons per day with total capacities of 300 thousand tons per year, saving the company about 200 thousand tons of coal annually.
Mansi added that the company is negotiating with a number of investors to implement projects necessary to produce solar power for its plant in Ain Sokhna during July 2019, in conjunction with the state direction towards the liberalization of the energy price by the end of the current fiscal year.
