DANGOTE CEMENT

Dangote Cement Plc is Africa’s leading cement producer with three plants in Nigeria (Gboko, Benue State, Obajana, Kogi State and Ibese, Ogun State). Dangote Cement also has operations in 17 other African countries, namely: Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroun, Liberia, South Africa,

Kenya, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Chad, Mali and Niger. The company is also about to set up a cement plant in Nepal.

Dangote Cement is a fully integrated quarry-to-customer producer with production capacity of up to 29.3 million tonnes in Nigeria. The Obajana plant is the largest in Africa with 13.25 million tonnes capacity across four lines. The Ibese plant has four cement lines with a combined installed capacity of 12 million tonnes. The Gboko plant has four million tonnes capacity.

Through its recent investments, Dangote Cement has eliminated Nigeria’s dependence on imported cement and is transforming the nation into an exporter serving neighbouring countries.

In 2015, Dangote Cement commissioned its plants in four African countries: Ethiopia (June 4), Zambia (August 4), Cameroon (August 27), and Tanzania (October 10). The plant in Congo, Brazzaville, was commissioned on November 23, 2017. The other plants spread across African countries are at various stages of completion.

Dangote Cement has adopted a policy of continuous expansion especially across Africa because cement is an essential building material with no viable substitute, and Africa will need billions of tonnes in the coming decades as governments in Africa focus on addressing the continent’s infrastructural deficit.