Lafarge hold workshop to educate local construction suppliers

Managing Director of Lafarge Mahaweli Cement, Anurag Kak addresses the audience.

Lafarge recently held a workshop to educate local construction suppliers in the ready mix concrete industry.

The intricacy of managing these very precise products was a subject for detailed discussion by Lafarge India Vice President, QC and Product Development, Jean Michel Laye at a workshop held recently.

"Many insights towards making precise mixtures for the construction industry were presented and a detailed discussion about what should be done, to handle certain constraints in the supply of aggregates such as sand were discussed by the presenter and the participants.

The pros and cons of using sea sand as a substitute for river sand, due to it being in short supply, were closely examined. A wide variety of customised concrete products and solutions for commercial purposes were presented, to serve specific needs of the customers' applications, mix designs and industrial standards", a spokesman for the company said.