New African plants for HeidelbergCement
Company inaugurates new greenfield clinker and cement capacities in Togo and Burkina Faso
HeidelbergCement have further extended their footprint in the growing markets of sub-Saharan Africa with the inauguration of their new greenfield Scantogo clinker plant in Togo on 6 March 2015. Located at Tabligbo, some 80km north-east of the capital city Lomé, the US$250 million plant has an annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes and makes HeidelbergCement the largest German foreign investor in Togo.
A day earlier, HeidelbergCement also inaugurated the new Cimburkina cement grinding plant in Togo’s northern neighbouring country, Burkina Faso. Located near the capital city Ouagadougou, this new US$50 million plant has an annual capacity of 0.8 million tonnes.
‘The new greenfield facilities are part of our strategy of expanding our cement capacities in growth markets. In addition to Asia these include, in particular, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa,’ said Dr Bernd Scheifele (pictured), chairman of the managing board of HeidelbergCement.
He continued: ‘The new clinker plant in Togo will greatly improve our competitiveness by enabling us to replace expensive clinker imports by local sourcing. The clinker from Togo will also be used in our new grinding plant close to Ouagadougou to produce cement for the local construction industry in Burkina Faso. Our new plants are strengthening our position in both countries as well as in the whole region.’
HeidelbergCement, who have also recently started to build a 0.25 million tonnes capacity greenfield cement grinder in the Kara region in the northern part of Togo, which will be ready by 2017, are now active in eight countries south of the Sahara and operates three integrated cement plants, one clinker plant and eight grinding plants with a total cement capacity of about 10 million tonnes per year.
