Zimbabwe: PPC (Pretoria Portland Cement) plans to spend at least US$200m on a new cement plant in Mashonaland Central Province in Zimbabwe, according to Zak Limbada, the managing director of its Zimbabwe subsidiary Portland Holdings Limited (PHL). The proposed plant will have a capacity of 1Mt/yr.
"We are busy drilling to identify the raw materials in the Rushinga area and some north eastern parts of the country," said Limbada.
PPC currently has a capacity of 1Mt/yr in Zimbabwe. Larfage and Sino Cement produce 400,000t/yr and 250,000t/yr respectively in the country. In November 2012 PPC announced that PHL has been awarded an indigenisation certificate by the government of Zimbabwe.
