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Ethiopia: The Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT) plans to sell its shares in Messebo Cement. The shares will go on sale at the International Tigray Diaspora festival later in July 2019, according to Fana Broadcasting. EFFORT is also selling its shares in SUR Construction and Trans Ethiopia.

Ethiopia: Messebo Cement has purchased 200 trucks from Germany’s Man for US$30m. The cement producer has expanded its fleet to reduce its transportation costs, according to the Ethiopian Reporter newspaper. The trucks have been assembled locally by Mesfin Industrial Engineering, a sister company to Massebo, after shipping. 25 of the trucks are silo trucks for transporting bulk cement and 50 are dump trucks.

Ethiopia: Messebo Cement has hired Industrial Projects Service (IPS), a state-owned consultant, to conduct an assessment of the cement market around Addis Ababa. It wants to explore the feasibility of opening a grinding plant where semi-processed clinker from Tigray will be processed to produce cement.

"The project is mainly intended to minimise the transportation cost incurred from Mekelle to Addis Ababa, which is US$24.5 – 33.7/t, and hence to enable the plant to compete with existing cement plants in the city," said Kidane Tekelehaimanot, Messebo's deputy project manager. Mekelle is 770km away from Addis Ababa. The Addis plant, if opened, would receive and crush the semi-processed clinker by mixing it with additives, which account for 30% of the total amount currently transported from Mekelle. The Mekelle plant produces 83% of its 2.24Mt/yr cement production capacity.

Messebo is the second company after newcomer Habesha Cement to undertake a market study. Habesha, which has a designed production capacity of 2.5Mt/yr, has hired Waas International Consulting to assess the current and future demand and supply of cement, as well as to determine the need of for expansion. Dangote and Derba Midroc cement plants are also planning expansions, with Derba intending to double its 2.3Mt/yr production capacity.

Ethiopia: A TEC has released progress information on contracts to provide an alternative fuel system, which can process sesame straw and stalks, and a cement big-bag filling station for Messebo Building Materials Production in Mekelle. Both commissions were awarded in the first quarter of 2013 and local manufacturing and the erection will be performed by Mesfin Industrial Engineering PLC, a sister company of Messebo.

Installation of the alternative fuels system will start in the fourth quarter of 2013 with a planned start-up in the first quarter of 2014. Collection and preparation of straw and the production of bales will take place at Kafta Humera. The first phase of the project includes building a baling capacity of 50t/hr and an alternative fuel feeding capacity to the calciner of 10t/hr at the cement plant in Mekelle. A future upgrade, phase two, will scale the system up to a baling capacity of 71t/hr and an alternative fuel feeding capacity of 20t/hr.

The new station for big-bag filling will be installed at the cement plant in Mekelle. The system will consist of three filling stations in modular design. Each station can handle 15 bags/hr. A total number of 45 big-bags/hr with an overall capacity of 90t/hr can be reached. The big-bag filling station will be installed and commissioned at the end of 2013.