Dangote Cement set to commission Tanzania plant on Oct. 10 2015

Dangote Cement is set to commission its new 3.0 million metric tonnes per annum cement plant located in Mtwara District of Tanzania on October 10, 2015.

The company will also hold the grounding breaking ceremony for a 25 hectares of Jetty land at Mgao village in Mtwara District the same day.

The commissioning of the new cement plant which is part of the Dangote Cement’s Africa expansion strategy will be the fourth in the series after Ethiopia, Zambia and Cameroon.

Cement plants due for commissioning this year are located in Senegal and South Africa, while construction works are ongoing in several other African countries.

The groundbreaking for the Tanzanian Cement plant was held on May 27, 2013. With the plant in operation, Tanzania is on its way to become of the African countries that are self-sufficient in cement production.

Dangote Cement with is a subsidiary of the Dangote Group and it’s founder and chairman Aliko Dangote have been lauded by several governments across the continent for the massive investments across Africa.

Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, while speaking at the commissioning of Zambian Plant a few weeks ago described Aliko Dangote as an “exceptional African entrepreneur, with a commitment to the development of Africa and Africans”. He added that Aliko Dangote is not only a Nigerian from Kano State, but a pan-African who has done his country proud and that his business footprint spread over 16 African countries is a “signal of a truly African multinational enterprise that not only seeks profit, but betters the lives of Africans through job creation.”