15 July 2016
Dangote Cement builds distribution presence in Ghana 15 July 2016
Ghana: Dangote Cement plans to recruit 5000 workers following its procurement of 1000 trucks to distribute its products. The cement producer has started recruiting drivers, truck driver assistants and loaders. The vehicles arrived in Ghana in early July 2016, according to the Lagos Guardian. The drive to build its distribution network complements the company’s on-going efforts to build a 1.5Mt/yr clinker grinding plant in Takoradi.
Algeria: Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has laid the first stone at a cement plant being built at Sigus, Oum El Bouaghi by the Industrial Public Group of Cements of Algeria (GICA). Sellal said that his country had invested significantly in the cement sector and that Algeria should being exporting cement by 2019, according to the Algeria Press Service.
Polysius SAS France, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp, won the contract to build the cement plant in October 2015 on a budget of over Euro310m. The plant will have a production capacity of 2.2Mt/yr and it will start production in Febraury 2019.