Morocco’s cement dispatch started into 2024 with a plus of +6.5% to 1.130 Mt, after 1.061 Mt in January 2023. Anyhow, over the last years the January dispatch showed YoY changes from -8.1% to +8.9% range.
After a period of stagnation, the cement production in Ethiopia has been increasing with +5.1% to 9.83 Mta last year and 8.77 Mta in 2019. However, the capacity utilization is with only 46.8% not economical and the per capita consumption…
CIMAF Mali, part of the CIMAF Group (Ciments de l’Afrique), started the construction of a second cement grinding plant in Natien, a village located in the Sikasso region at the border triangle to Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast. The…
In 2023, Zambia’s cement consumption increased by +10.2% to 2.43 Mta, after 2.20 Mta in 2022, despite 2-digit cement price increases in the last quarter. The per capita consumption (PCC) of cement increased significantly from 110 kg to 118 kg,…
In Liberia, in 2023 the annual cement production slightly recovered by +3.8% to 0.492 Mta from the 2 digit decline last year. The cement capacity utilization of the 2 installed cement grinding plants increased from 45.1% in 2022 to 46.9%…
In 2023, Morocco’s cement dispatch stabilized at 12.511 Mta, which is an increase by +0.2% compared to 2022. However, the cement capacity utilization rate is only 48.5%.
In Tunisia, in the first 3 quarters of 2023, the cement production decreased by -1.3% to 5.594 Mt, after 5.667 Mt in the same period in 2022. However, while in the 2.Q 2023 the production improved by +3.7%, in the…
South Africa’s Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) divested a 51% stake in Cimerwa, Rwanda’s top cement producer, operating a 0.6 Mta kiln line (photo) in Bugarama, in the Rusizi district at the South Western border of Rwanda. The divestment is in…
Two Chinese Investors plan a 2.7 Mta integrated cement plant in Magunje, Mashonaland in Zimbabwe. The investors are Labenmon Investments (Pvt) Ltd. and West International Holding (WIH), a subsidiary of China West Cement, which owns a total cement capacity of…
In 2023, the cement consumption in Zimbabwe increased by +4.3% to 1.76 Mta, after a 2-digits increase by +19.6% to 1.60 Mta in 2021 and to 1.69 Mta last year. This corresponds to a per capita cement consumption of about…