List of companies and cities in Africa that manufacture cement

Countries

[[Angola]]

• Lobitoo - proposal 2006
• Nova Cimangola - state-owned cement company based in Luanda, associated with Scancem and Heidelberg Cement

[[Benin]]

• Onigbolo, Porto-Novo

[[Burundi]]

• Bugarama
• Burundi Cement Company - (BUCECO)...

[[Botswana]]

• Gaborone - expansion 2007

[[Burkina Faso]]

• Ouagadougou
• Ouagadougou - cement works

[[Cameroon]]

• Douala - port - portland cement
• Yaoundé - national capital - portland cement
• Douala - cement works
• existing owned by LaFarge of France.
• Limbe
• Bélabo - concrete sleepers

[[Central African Republic]]

• 75% from Ione, Cameroon

[[Republic of the Congo]] (Congo Brazzaville)

• Loutété - rehabilitate 2005

[[Democratic Republic of Congo]] (Congo Kinshasa)

• Lukala

[[Djibouti]]

• Djibouti Cement SARL 200,000MTPA for local consumption. Built by Saboo Engineers India, with Indian Govt 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.

• Italcementi Group, Cairo; 5 plants, 3 business units; Suez Cement Plant, Qattamya Cement Plant, Tourah Cement Plant, Helwan Cement Plant, and the white Plant on Al Minya.
• 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.
• Sinai White Cement Portland.
• Misr-Beni Suef.
• Misr-Quena.
• CEMEX (Assiut Cement Company) .
• El Ammriya Cement Company.
• Titan Cement Company with two plants, one located in Alexandria and another in Beni-Suef.
• Al Arabia for cement.
• Al Sweedy for Cement.
• South-Valley for Cement.
• The National Cement Company.
• Arabian Cement Company.

[[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, has increased to 15 million tonnes per year, but local consumption is only 6 million tonnes per year.

[[Equatorial Guinea]]

• Malabo - Cement Works COMERCIAL OKOMAR, S.A.

[[Gabon]]

• Ntoum - Integrated
• Owendo - Grinding
• Franceville - Grinding
• Owendo - CIMAF

[[Ghana]]

• Ghana Cement 97% market share
• Diamond Cement Ghana - 2001; railway siding Diamond Cement Ghana at Aflao near Lomé
• Buipe proposed
• Ghacem, a subsidiary of Scancem and Heidelberg Cement, with operations in the port city of Tema "Ghacem" is 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.

[[Guinea]]

• Onigbolo Cement Company
• CIMAF Cement Works, Conakry
• Diamond Cement Guinea S.A [(Kagbelen)]

[[Ivory Coast]]

• Abidjan A
• Abidjan - cement works
• San Pédro

[[Kenya]]

• Athi River Mining, Nairobi
• Lafarge Bamburi Cement of Mombasa and Nairobi
• Marich - proposed 2009
• South Africa Portland Cement
• East African Portland Cement Co. Ltd
• National cement co. Ltd
• Mombasa Cement Ltd (MCL)
• Savanna cement co.ltd
• Simba cement co.ltd
• Rhino cement co. ltd

[[Liberia]]

• Monrovia

[[Libya]]

• Arabian Cement Co.
• Libyan Cement Company
• Khoms - concrete sleeper plant by Walterbau, Germany.

[[Madagascar]]

Alpha Ciment - Ibity (Antsirabe), Vakinankaratra

[[Malawi]]

• LaFarge Portland Malawi, Blantyre
• Shayona Cement Corporation Limited, Kasungu
• Cement Products Limited, Mangochi

[[Mali]]

• Diamond Cements .S.A.Bamako

[[Mauritania]]

• Nouakchott – Ciment de Mauritanie
• Nouakchott – MAFCI

[[Mauritius]]

• Port Louis, Mauritius - import

[[Morocco]]

• Total production capacity is 19 million tons in 2017.

[[Casablanca-Settat|Casablanca-Settat region]]

• Casablanca (LafargeHolcim)
• Settat (LafargeHolcim)
• Jorf Lasfar (Ciments du Maroc)
• Ben Ahmed (CIMAT)

[[Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima|Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region]]

• Tangiers (LafargeHolcim)
• Tetouan (LafargeHolcim)

[[Fès-Meknès|Fès-Meknès region]]

• Fez (LafargeHolcim)
• Meknes (LafargeHolcim)

[[Marrakesh-Safi|Marrakesh-Safi region]]

• Marrakesh (Ciments du Maroc)
• Safi (Ciments du Maroc)

[[Oriental (Morocco)|Oriental region]]

• Oujda (LafargeHolcim)
• Nador (LafargeHolcim)

[[Béni Mellal-Khénifra|Béni Mellal-Khénifra region]]

• Beni Mellal (CIMAT)

[[Souss-Massa|Souss-Massa region]]

• Ait Baha (Ciments du Maroc)

[[Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra|Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region]]

• Laayoune (Ciments du Maroc)

[[Rabat-Salé-Kénitra|Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region]]

• Temara (Votorantim Cimentos)

[[Mozambique]]

• Cimentos de Mozambique, subsidiary of Portuguese company Cimpor at Matola
• Dondo - also concrete sleeper plant
• Nacala Sunera Cimentos

[[Namibia]]

• Karibib - proposed 2008
• Otavi - Ohorongo Cement, under construction 2010; rail siding

[[Niger]]

• Niamey - SNC - SOCIÉTÉ NIGÉRIENNE DE CIMENTERIE

[[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 State. Commissioned July 2018
• Cement Company of Northern Nigeria, also known as Sokoto Cement, with 6 offices in northern states
• Dangote Cement
  • Benue Cement Company (now under Dangote group)
  • Obajana cement factory (Dangote group), Obajana, Kogi State
  • Obajana cement factory (Dangote group), Ibeshe, Ogun state
• Lafarge
  • Ashaka Cement in Bauchi State in the north
  • Atlas Cement
  • Lakatabu cement factory (WAPCO Lafarge), Ifo, OGUN STATE
  • WAPCO in Lagos State
• Nigerian Cement

[[Rwanda]]

• Rwanda Cement Factory (CIMERWA)

[[Senegal]]

• Societe Commerciale de Transport et d'Industrie (SUARL) in Dakar
• Sococim Industries, Rufisque
• Ciments du Sahel, Polysius AG subsidiary, Kirène - to be expanded in 2008
• Dangote Cement

[[Sierra Leone]]

• Freetown

[[Somaliland]]

• Berbera Horn Cement Somaliland MSG Group of Companies Horn Holding Group Ltd. 1.2 million tons of cement and 1 million tons of clinker.

[[South Africa]]

• Pretoria Portland Cement Company
• Hercules (Pretoria)
• Jupiter (Johannesburg)
• Dwaalboom
• Slurry
• De Hoek
• Riebeeck West
• Port Elizabeth
• Saldanha (Slag Grinding Only)
• Sephaku Cement
• Aganang (Lichtenburg)
• Delmas (Grinding Station)
• Lafarge Cement
• Lichtenburg
• Randfontein (Grinding Station)
• Richards Bay (Grinding Station)
• AfriSam
• Dudfield (Lichtenburg)
• Ulco (Kimberly)
• Roodepoort (Grinding Station)
• Vanderbijlpark (Slag Grinding & Blending Station)
• Brakpan (Blending Station)
• NPC Cimpor
• Simuma
• Coedmore
• Newcastle (Slag grinding and cement blending plant)

[[Sudan]]

• Aslan Cement Factory - rail junction - river in Khartoum Region
• Rabak - rail junction - river
• Atbara - rail junction - river in atbara Region
• Proposed 2008

[[Tanzania]]

• Mbeya Cement in Mbeya
• Tanga Cement in Tanga
• Twiga Cement in Dar es Salaam
• Athi River Mining in Dar es Salaam & Tanga
• Nyati Cement in Dar es Salaam
• KIlwa Cement in Lindi
• Kisarawe Cement in Dar Es Salaam
• Camel Cement in Dar es Salaam
• Kilimanjaro Cement in Moshi
• Dangote Industries Tanzania in Mtwara

[[Togo]]

• Cimtogo, Lomé
• WACEM, Lomé
• Tabligbo - CIMAO clinker works (proposed)

[[Tunisia]]

• Benzert privatized in 1997
• La société des Ciments Artificiels Tunisiens « CAT» part of Italian group «COLACEM », based in Tunis
• 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 société des Ciments de Gabès « SCG» from the Portuguese group «SECIL », based in Gabès
• Carthage Cement built in 2013 by FL Smith with capacity of 6500TPD based in EL Mourouj
• La SOTACIB, White cement production plant, from the Spanish group « PRASA », based in Tunis

[[Uganda]]

• Moroto Cement Limited at Moroto, in Moroto District (32% marketshare)
• Tororo Cement Limited at Tororo, in Tororo District (34% marketshare)
• Hima Cement Limited at Hima, in Kasese District (29% marketshare)
• Kampala Cement Company Limited at Namataba, Mukono District 5%

[[Zambia]]

[[Lusaka]]

• Lafarge Cement Zambia in Chilanga
• AMAKA Cement
• SINOMA plant

[[Ndola]]

• Zambezi Portland Cement (Ndola)
• Dangote (Ndola)
• Chilanga Cement Plant

[[Zimbabwe]]

• Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe, formerly Circle Cement, Harare
• Unicem, fully owned by PPC Cement
  • Harare
  • Bulawayo
  • Colleen Bawn
• Sino Zimbabwe Cement Company, Gweru
• Live Touch Cement Company, Redcliff
• Pacstar Cement Company, Redcliff

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