West International Holding, which is a subsidiary of China West Cement, invests in a 6000 tpd cement plant in Uganda. The investment cost for the project is US$ 300m, which will produce 2.2 Mta cement. The new plant will be…
Although in August 2023, in Morocco the cement dispatch increased by 7.6% (YoY), the accumulated cement dispatch in the first 8 month of 2023 declined by -0.8% to 8.141 Mt, when compared to the 8.209 Mt of the first 8…
BUA Cement Plc has announced plans to reduce the price of cement in Nigeria from the present N5,500 to between N3,000 to N3,500. This was made known by the Chairman of the company, Abdul Samad Rabiu, after a meeting with…
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has disclosed that during the first half of 2023 the cement sales dropped by a substantial 30 percent. The Association attributed the decline to the government’s replacement of the Naira with a new central…
Beginning of August 2023 the AnJia Cement Factory installed a new grinding plant in the Muhanga Industrial park, Southern Province, Rwanda. The AnJia Cement Factory was built by AnJia Prefabricated Construction Rwanda Co Ltd, a subsidiary of West International Holding,…
In 2024 in Nigeria, BUA Cement will commission two new cement lines. The Sokoto line 5 as well as the Obu plant line 3, both will have a rated capacity of 3 Mta. The construction of both cement lines is…
Kenya-based National Cement Co. Ltd. (NCCL), which is part of the Devki Group, manufacturing Simba Cement will open a new 2.5 Mta clinker plant in September 2023. The plant which is located in West Pokot is a long-term project and…
The Ethiopian cement producer Derba Midroc awarded Sinoma with a US$ 291m contract for the design and supply of a 5000 tpd new kiln line in Derba, Oromiya state in Ethiopia. The first cement products are expected to start rolling…
The strategic investment by the VICAT Group is on track. The new 6500 tpd kiln line at the Rufisque cement plant in Senegal will be commissioned in the year 2024 by Fives FCB. The new line no. 6 will feature…
A new cement grinding plant has been commissioned by Khayah Cement (formerly Lafarge Cement and Circle Cement) in Manresa, Zimbabwe. A vertical roller mill (VRM) has been installed, which boosted the plants cement capacity to about 1.0 Mta.