Nigeria’s Dangote Cement is planning to increase its regional footprint in Africa to 66.4 Mta cement production capacity by 2030. This shall be achieved through new greenfield investments and brownfield projects to upgrade existing plants. In the coming 2 years…
Nigeria’s Dangote Cement has become the largest cement company in Sub-Saharan Africa, operating in 10 countries. However, the capacity expansion is moderate now, after a more aggressive strategy in recent years (photo: Ndola integrated cement plant in Zambia). Two more…
Dangote Cement announced that its 3.0 Mta cement grinding plant in the Ivory Coast will be completed by 3Q 2025. The grinding plant (illustration) is located next to the new industrial park in Yongbang City near Abidjan and covers an…
Dangote’s 2 x 1.5 Mta grinding plant in Yonbon (Abidjan) in Côte d’Ivoire nears completion. Phase1 with 1.5 Mta is almost finished and also Phase2 is making substantial progress. With the successful commissioning of a 0.45 Mta grinding plant in…
Local Zambian press reported that Dangote Cement plans to double its investment in Zambia by building a second cement plant. Their integrated 1.5 Mta plant in Ndola (photo), 271 km from Lusaka, opened in 2.Q in 2015. The plant has…
The cement production of the two largest production companies Dangote Cement and BUA Cement in the 1.Q 2023 has been down by 20.2%. According to the companies the cement production has been mainly down because of the election uncertainties in…