Mumbai, March 11 -- Bekaert has inaugurated its new India Concrete Expertise Centre, a cutting-edge facility dedicated to advancing the concrete industry through innovative research and development of fibre-reinforced concrete applications, in its plant in Lonand, Maharashtra. Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium, who is presiding over the Belgian Economic Mission to India, and members of the Bekaert Group Executive were present at the signing ceremony in New Delhi.

With its cutting-edge equipment, Bekaert's new concrete expertise centre is the first laboratory in the world to evaluate the use of steel fibres to strengthen spray concrete. It is anticipated that the project would have a major positive impact on the Indian and int...