List of companies and cities in Africa that manufacture cement

Countries

Angola

• Lobitoo - proposal 2006^[1]
• Nova Cimangola - state-owned cement company based in Luanda, associated with Scancem and Heidelberg Cement^[2]

Benin

• Onigbolo, Porto-Novo^[3]

Burundi

• Bugarama^[4]
• Burundi Cement Company - (BUCECO)...

Botswana

• Gaborone - expansion 2007 ^[5]

Burkina Faso

• Ouagadougou^[6]
• Ouagadougou - cement works

Cameroon

• Douala - port - cement works
• Yaoundé - national capital - cement works
• Douala - cement works
• existing owned by LaFarge of France.
• Limbe^[7]
• Bélabo - concrete sleepers

CAR

• 75% from Ione, Cameroon ^[8]

Congo Brazzaville

• Loutété - rehabilitate 2005^[9]
• CMKC Group - Kibangou - possible site 2008

Congo Kinshasa

• Lukala

Côte d'Ivoire

• Abidjan A
• Abidjan - cement works
• San Pédro

Djibouti

• Djibouti Cement SARL under construction, other import of 150,000MTPA for local consumption

Egypt

Egypt is one of the greatest cement producers all over the world and the leading country in the middle East,Africa, and the Arabian Region with a total production capacity of 50 million tons of cement.

• Italcementi Group, Cairo; 5 plants, 3 business units; Suez Cement Plant,Qattamya Cement Plant, Tourah Cement Plant, Helwan Cement Plant, and the white Plant on Al Minya.

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• Egyptian Cement Company recently became Lafarge Cement Egypt with a total production capacity of about 10 million tons of cement coming from five lines designed and manufactured by POLYSIUS FRANCE, LCE arranged as the second plant all over the world on the cement production.
• Sinai White Cement Portland.
• Misr-Beni Suef.
• Misr-Quena.
• Cemex (Asuit Cement Comopany) .
• El Ammriya Cement Company.
• Titan Cement Company with two plants, one located in Alexandria and another in Beni-Suef.
• Al Arabia for cement.
• Al Sweedy for Cement.
• South-Valley for Cement.
• The National Cement Company.
• Arabian Cement Company.

And still more plants are under construction.

Eritrea

• Massawa - port and railhead - under construction^[11]

Equatorial Guinea

• Malabo - Cement Works COMERCIAL OKOMAR, S.A.

Ethiopia

• Dejen
• National Cement, Dire Dawa
• Messebo, Mek'ele
• Mugar (or Muger), Durba^[12]
• Derba Midroc, Durba - proposed 2008^[13][14]
• Holleta=Debressina Business & Industry (LAXMI)

Dangote

Gabon

• Ntoum - Integrated^[15]
• Owendo - Grinding^[16]
• Franceville - Grinding^[16]
• Owendo - CIMAF

Ghana

• Ghana Cement 97% market share ^[17]
• Diamond Cement Ghana - 2001;^[18] railway siding Diamond Cement Ghana at Aflao near Lomé
• Buipe proposed ^[19]
• Ghacem, a subsidiary of Scancem and Heidelberg Cement, with operations in the port city of Tema ^[20]

"Ghacem" is same as "Ghana Cement", and does not have 97% market share anymore because Buipe plant has been built, and is not really a subsidiary of Scancem, because Scancem is owned by Heidelberg Cement, and has two plants in Ghana : one in Tema, which was upgraded in November 2012 from 1.2 million tons per year to 2.2 Mton/year, and one in Sekondi-Takoradi which can produce 1.2 Mton/year.^[21]

Guinea

• Onigbolo Cement Company^[22]
• CIMAF Cement Works, Conakry

Diamond Cement Guinea S.A [(Kagbelen)]

Kenya

• Athi River Mining, Nairobi^[23]
• Lafarge Bamburi Cement of Mombasa and Nairobi^[24]
• Marich - proposed 2009^[25][26]
• South Africa Portland Cement
• East African Portland Cement Co. Ltd
• National cement co. Ltd
• Mombasa cement co. Ltd
• Savanna cement co.ltd
• Simba cement co.ltd
• Rhino cement co. ltd

Liberia

• Monrovia^[22]

Libya

• Arabian Cement Co.
• Libyan Cement Company
• Khoms - concrete sleeper plant by Walterbau, Germany.^[27]

Malawi

• LaFarge Portland Malawi, Blantyre ^[28]
• Shanoya Cement Corporation Limited, Kasungu

Mali

• Diamond Cements .S.A.Bamako

Mauritania

• Nouakchott - CIMENT DE MAURITANIE
• Nouakchott - MAFCI

Mauritius

• Port Louis, Mauritius - import ^[29]

Morocco

• Total production is 6.6 million tons in 1996.
• Casablanca ^[30]
• Ciments du Maroc, Italcementi Group, of Casablanca w/production: Agadir, Safi, Marrakech, Laayoune, Jorf Lasfar.^[31]
• Tangiers
• Agadir
• Meknes
• Tetouan
• Marrakesh
• Oujda
• Temara

Mozambique

• Cimentos de Mozambique, subsidiary of Portuguese company Cimpor ^[32] at Matola ^[33]
• Dondo - also concrete sleeper plant
• Nacala

Sunera Cimentos

Namibia

• Karibib - proposed 2008^[34]
• Otavi - Ohorongo Cement, under construction 2010;^[35][36][37] rail siding ^[38]

Niger

• Niamey - SNC - SOCIÉTÉ NIGÉRIENNE DE CIMENTERIE

Nigeria

• Bauchi-Gwana Cement, Alkaeri L.G.A. Bauchi (subsidiary of Cretent Intl)
• Bua Cement, Ukpilla Former Edo cement, near Benin City
• Cement Company of Northern Nigeria, also known as Sokoto Cement, with 6 offices in northern states ^[39]
• Dangote Cement ^[40]
  • Benue Cement Company (now under Dangote group)
  • Obajana cement factory (Dangote group), Obajana, Kogi State
  • Obajana cement factory (Dangote group), Ibeshe, Ogun state
• Lafarge ^[41]
  • Ashaka Cement ^[42] in Kano State in the north
  • Atlas Cement
  • Lakatabu cement factory (WAPCO Lafarge), Ifo, OGUN STATE
  • WAPCO ^[43] in Lagos State
• Nigerian Cement ^[44]

Rwanda

• Rwanda Cement Factory (CIMERWA) ^[45]

Senegal

• Societe Commerciale de Transport et d'Industrie (SUARL) in Dakar^[46]
• Sococim Industries, Rufisque ^[47]
• Ciments du Sahel, Polysius AG subsidiary, Kirène - to be expanded in 2008 ^[48]
• Dangote Cement ^[49]

Sierra Leone

• Freetown ^[22]

South Africa

• Pretoria Portland Cement Company ^[50]

- Hercules (Pretoria) - Jupiter (Johannesburg) - Dwaalboom - Slurry - De Hoek - Riebeeck West - Port Elizabeth - Saldanha (Slag Grinding Only)

• Sephaku Cement

- Aganang (Lichtenburg) - Delmas (Grinding Station)

• Lafarge Cement

- Lichtenburg - Randfontein (Grinding Station) - Richards Bay (Grinding Station)

• AfriSam

- Dudfield (Lichtenburg) - Ulco (Kimberly) - Roodepoort (Grinding Station) - Vanderbijlpark (Slag Grinding & Blending Station) - Brakpan (Blending Station)

• NPC Cimpor

- Simuma - Coedmore - Newcastle (Slag grinding and cement blending plant)

Sudan

• Aslan Cement Factory ^[51] - rail junction - river in Khartoum Region
• Rabak - rail junction - river
• Atbara^[52] - rail junction - river in atbara Region
• Proposed 2008^[53]

Tanzania

• Mbeya Cement in Mbeya ^[54]
• Tanga Cement in Tanga
• Twiga Cement in Dar es Salaam
• Athi River Mining in Dar es Salaam & Tanga
• Nyati Cement in Dar es Salaam
• KIlwa Cement in asoko- Lindi
• Kisarawe Cement in Dar Es Salaam
• Camel Cement in Dar es Salaam]
• Kilimanjaro cement in Moshi]
• Dangote Cement in Mtwara]

Togo

• Cimtogo, Lomé ^[55]
• WACEM, Lomé ^[55]
• Tabligbo - CIMAO clinker works (proposed) ^[56]

Tunisia

• Benzert privatized in 1997 ^[57]
• La société des Ciments Artificiels Tunisiens « CAT » part of Italian group «COLACEM », based in Tunis
• La société des Ciments de Jbel Oust « CJO » from the Brazilian group « Votorantim Cimentos », based in Jbel Oust
• La société des Ciments d'Enfidha « CE » from the Spanish group « UNILAND », based in Enfidha
• La société des Ciments de Gabès « SCG » from the Portuguese group «SECIL », based in Gabès
• La SOTACIB, White cement production plant, from the Spanish group « PRASA », based in Tunis

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Uganda

• Moroto Cement Limited at Moroto, in Moroto District (34% marketshare)
• Tororo Cement Limited at Tororo, in Tororo District (34% marketshare)^[59]
• Hima Cement Limited at Hima, in Kasese District (32% marketshare)
• Kampala Cement Company Limited at Namataba, Mukono District (Since 2015 - Too new to rate).

Zambia

• Lafarge Cement Zambia in Chilanga, Ndola^[60][61]
• AMAKA Cement (http://www.scirocco.com.zm/)
• Zambezi Portland Cement (Ndola)
• Dangote (Ndola) (New Entrant into Zambian market, Breaking ground in 2012 with expected production start up in 2015)

Zimbabwe

• Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe, formerly Circle Cement, Harare^[62]
• Unicem, fully owned by PPC Cement
  • Colleen Bawn
  • Bulawayo

Sino Zimbabwe Cement Company

See also

• Portland cement
• Concrete sleeper
• Cement mill
• Cement kiln
• List of countries by cement production

External links

• Cement and Concrete Institute
• Cement Industry Net

References