Countries Algeria Amouda Ciment - a private producer with a presence in El Beida and other regions Biskria Ciment - a significant private operator located in Branis, Biskra, with an installed capacity of 5 million tons GICA Group (Groupe Industriel des Ciments d'Algérie) - the state-owned GICA Group is the largest producer, operating 14 cement plants across the country Hadjar Soud (Skikda) Lafarge Algérie - two plants, overall capacity of approximately 11.1 million tons Meftah (Blida) Saoura (Bechar) SCAK (Aïn El Kebira) - produces specialized oil-well cement SCHB (Hamma Bouziane) - a major facility in Constantine. Chlef Plant: A massive exporter, sending nearly 2 million tons of clinker to Europe in 2025. SCIBS (Beni Saf) - recently exported 45,000 tons to Mauritania and targeted 800,000 tons of grey cement sales for 2025 Sour El Ghozlane
Angola Lobitoo - proposal 2006 Nova Cimangola - state-owned cement company based in Luanda, associated with Scancem and Heidelberg Cement
Benin Onigbolo, Porto-Novo"Organisation Record - Benin" . afdevinfo.com.
Botswana Gaborone - expansion 2007"About PPC > Company Structure" . PPC.co.za.
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Ouagadougou - cement works
Burundi Bugarama Burundi Cement Company - BUCECO
Cameroon Bélabo - concrete sleepers Douala - portland cement Douala - cement works existing owned by LaFarge of France Limbe Yaoundé - national capital - portland cement
Central African Republic 75% from Ione, Cameroon"Central African Republic: Cement - Bangui Negotiates Supply" . Emmanuel Kendemeh, AllAfrica.com, 28 April 2008.
Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa) Lukala
Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville) Loutété - rehabilitate 2005
Djibouti Djibouti Cement SARL - 200,000MTPA for local consumption, built by Saboo Engineers India, with Indian government funding
Egypt Egypt is one of the biggest cement producers all over the world, and the leading country in the middle East, Africa, and the Arabian Region with a total production capacity of 50 million tons of cement.
Al Arabia for Cement Al Sweedy for Cement Arabian Cement Co. CEMEX (Assiut Cement Company) Egyptian Cement Company recently became Lafarge Cement Egypt with a total production capacity of about 10 million tons of cement coming from five lines designed and manufactured by POLYSIUS FRANCE, LCE arranged as the second plant all over the world on the cement production. El Ammriya Cement Company Italcementi Group, Cairo - five plants, three business units; Suez Cement Plant, Qattamya Cement Plant, Tourah Cement Plant, Helwan Cement Plant, and the white Plant on Al Minya Misr-Beni Suef Misr-Quena The National Cement Company Sinai White Cement Portland South-Valley for Cement Titan Cement Company - two plants, one located in Alexandria and another in Beni-Suef
Equatorial Guinea Malabo - Cement Works Comercial Okomar, S.A.
Eritrea Massawa - port and railhead, under construction
Ethiopia Ethiopia has 20 cement factories which produce mainly OPC and PPC cement. Two other cement factories are in the pipeline. As of 2017, production capacity in Ethiopian, according to the Ethiopian Reporter,Ethiopian reporter, adds fortune, 2017 had increased to 15 million tonnes per year, but local consumption was only 6 million tonnes per year.
Gabon Franceville - grinding Ntoum - integrated Owendo - CIMAF Owendo - grinding
Ghana Buipe - proposed Diamond Cement Ghana - 2001;"President inaugurates Diamond Cement Factory" . GNA - Ghana News Agency. 29 September 2004. railway siding Diamond Cement Ghana at Aflao near Lomé Ghana Cement 97% market share Ghacem - a subsidiary of Scancem and Heidelberg Cement, with operations in the port city of Tema
Note: "Ghacem" is the same as "Ghana Cement", and does not have 97% market share anymore because Buipe plant has been built, and is not really a subsidiary of Scancem, because Scancem is owned by Heidelberg Cement, and has two plants in Ghana:one in Tema, which was upgraded in November 2012 from 1.2 million tons per year to 2.2 Mton/year, and one in Sekondi-Takoradi, which can produce 1.2 Mton/year."Ghacem increases production capacity" source: thebftonline.com. 2012 November 30.
Guinea CIMAF Cement Works, Conakry Diamond Cement Guinea S.A., Kagbelen Onigbolo Cement Company"The Mineral Industries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone" . Thomas R. Yager. Section 17.4 U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook. 2002. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
Ivory Coast Abidjan Abidjan - CIMAF San Pédro
Kenya Athi River Mining, Nairobi East African Portland Cement Co. Ltd Lafarge Bamburi Cement of Mombasa and NairobiBamburi Cement Limited . LaFarge. Marich - proposed 2009Railway Gazette International June 2012, p31 Mombasa Cement Ltd (MCL) National Cement Co. Ltd Rhino Cement Co. Ltd Savanna Cement Co. Ltd Simba Cement Co. Ltd South Africa Portland Cement
Liberia Monrovia
Libya Arabian Cement Co. Khoms - concrete sleeper plant by Walterbau, Germany Libyan Cement Company
Madagascar Alpha Ciment - Ibity (Antsirabe), Vakinankaratra
Malawi Cement Products Limited, Mangochi LaFarge Portland Malawi, Blantyre Shayona Cement Corporation Limited, Kasungu
Mali Diamond Cements S.A., Bamako
Mauritania Nouakchott - Ciment de Mauritanie Nouakchott - MAFCI
Mauritius Port Louis, Mauritius - import
Morocco Total production capacity was 19 million tons in 2017.
Béni Mellal-Khénifra region Beni Mellal (CIMAT)
Casablanca-Settat region Ben Ahmed (CIMAT) Casablanca (Holcim) Jorf Lasfar (Ciments du Maroc) Settat (Holcim)
Fès-Meknès region Fez (Holcim) Meknes (Holcim)
Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region Laayoune (Ciments du Maroc)
Marrakesh-Safi region Marrakesh (Ciments du Maroc) Safi (Ciments du Maroc)
Oriental region Nador (Holcim) Oujda (Holcim)
Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region Temara (Votorantim Cimentos)
Souss-Massa region Ait Baha (Ciments du Maroc)
Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region Tangiers (Holcim) Tetouan (Holcim)
Mozambique Cimentos de Mozambique, subsidiary of Portuguese company Cimpor"Cimentos de Mozambique". CimPor.pt. at Matola Dondo - also concrete sleeper plant Nacala Sunera Cimentos
Namibia Karibib - proposed 2008"Namibia: Cement Factory to Be Opened at Karibib" . 16 July 2008. AllAfrica.com Otavi - Ohorongo Cement, under construction 2010;"Cement plant Ohorongo". Economist.com.na. "German firm to construct US$350 million Cemtn Plant in Namibia". AfriquenLigne.fr. August 14, 2008. Marketplace. Namibian.com.na. August 2007. rail siding
Niger Niamey - Société Nigérienne De Cimenterie (SNC)
Nigeria Bauchi-Gwana Cement, Alkaeri L.G.A. Bauchi (subsidiary of Cretent Intl) BUA Cement, Obu, Okpella, Edo State, former Edo cement, near Benin City BUA Cement, Kalambaina Sokoto Stately - commissioned July 2018 Cement Company of Northern Nigeria - also known as Sokoto Cement, with 6 offices in northern statesBikSpec. bikspec.com. Dangote Cement Benue Cement Company (now under Dangote group) Obajana cement factory (Dangote group), Ibeshe, Ogun state Obajana cement factory (Dangote group), Obajana, Kogi State Lafarge Ashaka CementAshaka Cement . dangote-groupng.com.com. in Bauchi State in the north Atlas Cement Lakatabu cement factory (WAPCO Lafarge), Ifo, Ogun State WAPCO in Lagos State Nigerian Cement"Nigerian Cement" . dangote-groupng.com.
Rwanda Rwanda Cement Factory (CIMERWA)"Rwanda: Second Cement Factory Planned". John Gahamanyi, 18 December 2007. AllAfrica.com.
Senegal Ciments du Sahel, Polysius AG subsidiary, Kirène - to be expanded in 2008"Cement Report 06/07" (PDF). Polysius AG, ThyssenKrupp Technologies. Dangote Cement Societe Commerciale de Transport et d'Industrie (SUARL) in Dakar Sococim Industries, Rufisque
Sierra Leone Freetown
Somaliland Berbera Horn Cement Somaliland - MSG Group of Companies Horn Holding Group Ltd. 1.2 million tons of clinker, 23 million bags per year at 1.2 million tons clinker production
South Africa AfriSam Brakpan (blending station) Dudfield (Lichtenburg) Roodepoort (grinding station) Ulco (Kimberly) Vanderbijlpark (slag grinding & blending station) Lafarge Cement Lichtenburg Randfontein (grinding station) Richards Bay (grinding station) NPC Cimpor Coedmore Newcastle (slag grinding and cement blending plant) Simuma Pretoria Portland Cement Company De Hoek Dwaalboom Hercules (Pretoria) Jupiter (Johannesburg) Port Elizabeth Riebeeck West Saldanha (slag grinding only) Slurry Sephaku Cement Aganang (Lichtenburg) Delmas (grinding station)
Sudan Aslan Cement Factory - rail junction - river in Khartoum Region Atbara"The Mineral Industry of Sudan" (PDF). Thomas R. Yager. USGS.gov. 2001. - rail junction - river in atbara Region Rabak - rail junction - river
Tanzania Athi River Mining, Dar es Salaam & Tanga Camel Cement, Dar es Salaam Dangote Industries Tanzania, Mtwara Kilimanjaro Cement, Moshi Kilwa Cement, Lindi Kisarawe Cement, Dar Es Salaam Nyati Cement, Dar es Salaam Mbeya Cement, Mbeya Tanga Cement, Tanga Twiga Cement, Dar es Salaam
Togo Cimtogo, Lomé Tabligbo - CIMAO clinker works (proposed) WACEM, Lomé
Tunisia Benzert - privatized in 1997 Carthage Cement - built in 2013 by FL Smith with capacity of 6500TPD, based in EL Mourouj La société des Ciments Artificiels Tunisiens (CAT) - part of Italian group COLACEM, based in Tunis La société des Ciments de Gabès (SCG) - from the Portuguese group SECIL, based in Gabès La société des Ciments de Jbel Oust (CJO) - from the Brazilian group Votorantim Cimentos, based in Jbel Oust La société des Ciments d'Enfidha (CE) - from the Spanish group UNILAND, based in Enfidha La SOTACIB - white cement production plant, from the Spanish group PRASA, based in Tunis
Uganda Hima Cement Limited, Hima, in Kasese District (29% market share) Kampala Cement Company Limited, Namataba, Mukono District (5% market share) Moroto Cement Limited, Moroto, in Moroto District (32% market share) Tororo Cement Limited, Tororo, Tororo District (34% market share)
Zambia
Lusaka AMAKA Cement Lafarge Cement Zambia in ChilangaCement. Open Society Institute. SINOMA plant
Ndola Chilanga Cement Plant Dangote Zambezi Portland Cement
Zimbabwe Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe, formerly Circle Cement, Harare Live Touch Cement Company, Redcliff Pacstar Cement Company, Redcliff Sino Zimbabwe Cement Company, Gweru Unicem, fully owned by PPC Cement Bulawayo Colleen Bawn Harare
See also Portland cement Concrete sleeper Cement mill Cement kiln List of countries by cement production
External links Cement and Concrete Institute Cement Industry Net
References