Ghana: President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned ‘the world’s largest’ calcined clay cement plant in Tema, developed by CBI Ghana. The US$110m plant has a production capacity of 1.5Mt/yr of ‘environmentally-friendly’ cement, including 0.4Mt/yr of calcined clay. President Mahama said the opening of the plant is “a tangible step toward repositioning Ghana as a leading industrial hub in Africa.”
The facility will reportedly operate continuously under the government’s 24-Hour Economy policy and is expected to reduce Ghana’s dependence on imported clinker, using locally-sourced clay from the Torgome area in the Volta region.
