Dangote’s cementAs part of its expansion plan in
Africa, Dangote Cement
Plc has unveiled plans to commission its 2.5million
mtpa
cement
plant in Ethiopia as the company inches towards its 40million
mtpa global
total production capacity target before the end of 2015
Cited in Mugher
District, the Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia,
Haile Mariam Desalegne is expected to perform the opening ceremony.
A statement from the Dangote Group indicated that the its cement plant,
adjudged to be the single largest investment by an African, will be the fifth in
the series of the offshore plants of the company that have rolled out cement
within the last one year
in the continent, after Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa
and Zambia.
The group added that nine other countries have cement plants that are in
various stages of construction.
“The company is investing $5 billion to build an African cement empire, with
factories plants in 14 African countries.
“Recently, its $300 million Greenfield cement
plant in Senegal rolled
products into the market in that country with the Senegalese government
promising assistance required for Dangote Cement to perform maximally as its
entry into the Senegal has
stir up economic activities”, the statement read in
part.
Nigeria Ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, had said: “I am very proud of
what Dangote is
doing by promoting intra -African investments, promoting
regional development,
industrialisation and cohesion among African nations with
his investments.
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