A senior official at Lake Cement Ltd has confirmed that the company still plans to establish a US$150m cement plant in Chalinxe-Tarwanda, Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Plans were originally anounced back in November 2016, when it was said that construction would start in mid-2017.
Afroz Ansari, Lake Cement's asscoiate vice president, said: "The plan hasn't changed. The planned plant in Bagamoyo will have the capacity of producing 150,000t of cement per month," he said.
Lake Cement currently produced 50,000tpa of its Nyati branded cement from its plant in Kimbiji, Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam.
The Citizen newspaper reports that cement consumption in the country is currently growing at the rate of 8-9 per cent per annum.
