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Niger: The government has approved a project by Kao Cement to spend US$287m on a plant in the Tahoua region. The scheme is expected to create over 300 jobs, according to Agence Ecofin. Kao Cement is based in Niamey. A previous government scheme in 2017 looked for investors to build a 0.95Mt/yr cement plant in Kao.

Niger: Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Cement, has cleared plans for the construction of a 1.6Mt/yr integrated cement plant in Keita, Niger. The project, which includes the construction of a 100MW coal-fired power station, has a budget of US$275bn and is expected to take 26 months.

Nigeria: Aliko Dangote, the chairman of Dangote Cement, plans to increase his company’s cement production capacity in Africa by 29% to 62Mt/yr. It aims to add 6Mt/yr in Nigeria in 2020 to support exports to grinding plants in Cameroon and West Africa, according to Bloomberg. The cement producer previously said it had a production capacity of 45.6Mt/yr in 2018 from operations in 10 countries.

Niger: Dangote Cement has expressed an interest in establishing a 1.64Mt/yr cement production unit, complete with a grinding plant and gas energy plant, in Niger. Agence Ecofin reports that Dangote, Africa’s leading cement producer, aims to fill the Nigerien cement supply gap amidst an infrastructure boom fuelled by the country’s oil ambitions.

Niger: President Issoufou Mahamadou has inaugurated Malbaza Cement Company’s plant at Malbaza. The US$83m plant has a production capacity of 0.65Mt/yr, according to the Le Sahel newspaper. It produced its first cement in late December 2018. It has 347 employees.

Algeria: El-Hamel Sidi Moussa group’s Timegten cement plant has made its first 2000t export to Niger. The Chinese-Algerian joint venture used the Freight Transport and Logistics Group (Logitrans) to make the delivery overland via the In-Guezzam border crossing, according to Radio Algeria. The 1.2Mt/yr plant plans to target other countries, including Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso.

The Euro156m plant was commissioned in 2017. It is being run under a seven-year cooperation agreement where the Chinese partners manage the unit until the local workforce is trained. The plant also manufactures oil well cement.

Niger: Industry Minister Malam Zaneidou Amirou says that the Malbaza Cement Company produced the first tonne of cement at its Malbaza plant in late December 2018. The plant has a production capacity of 0.65Mt/yr, according to the Pan African News Agency. It is expected to cover around 80% of domestic demand for cement and reduce imports. The site was a workforce of 347 employees, including 276 Nigeriens.

Niger: Nouvelle Cimenterie de Niger (NCN) is preparing to open a new plant at Malbaza in December 2018. Company officials told Prime Minister Brigi Rafini that construction the unit had been completed and that it was preparing to start production, according to Niamey et les 2 jours and the l’Agence Ecofin. The plant has a production capacity of 2000t/day and it is estimated that it will provide 80% of the country’s demand for cement. The unit has 347 employees. The project was originally started in mid-2011 but was construction halted.

Niger: Nigeria’s Dangote Cement has started building a 2.5Mt/yr cement plant at Keita, near Tahoua. The project has a cost of US$275m, according to the Agence France Presse and local media. Construction is expected to last until the end of 2020. The unit will also include a 100MW captive coal-fired power plant.

The new plant is expected to reduce the price of cement locally, as the country mostly imports cement from Nigeria and Benin. Nouvelle Cimenterie de Niger (NCN) has been intermittently building an integrated plant at Malbaza since 2011.

Nigeria: Joe Makoju, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Cement, has revealed that the cement producer exports 0.21Mt of cement to Ghana, Togo and Niger in the first quarter of 2018. The company’s revenue grew by 16% year-on-year to US$668m from US$575m, according to the Vanguard newspaper. Its profit increased by 29% to US$199m from US$154m. Cement sales rose by 2.8% to 6.2Mt from 6.03Mt.