Dangote Industries Limited has signed an agreement with China Sinoma International Engineering to build a six million tons per annum Cement Plant In Itori, Ogun State. The agreement was signed by the Chairman of Dangote Cement Plc, Aliko Dangote along side Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects and Portfolio Development DIL, Devakumar Edwin, while China Sinoma Engineering was represented by its Group President, Yin Zhisong, and the Company’s Chairman, Liu Renyue. Dangote speaking at the signing ceremony said that new integrated cement plant at completion will strengthen local production capacity to 41.25 million tons per annum and total African Capacity to 57.6 million tons per annum. He said the Cement Plant will increase Nigeria’s capacity to export cement, thereby enabling more diversification and foreign exchange inflows for the economy. According to Dangote the project is further expected to develop the domestic economy through creation of thousands of indirect and direct jobs and drive the economic development in the Itori axis. Ancillary businesses, he stated will be drawn to the axis, who will be seeking to take advantage of the location of the cement plant to provide goods and services to staff, contractors and other stakeholders. He added that Constructing the new cement plant is in line with Dangote Group’s vision of producing locally goods that were formally imported despite the abundance of raw materials local production of such goods. He described Sinoma as a strategic partner who has been instrumental to the success of key projects in Dangote Group. He said “We are comfortable working with your company. You have handled some of our key projects and I am positive that this project will be completed as scheduled. Group President of China Sinoma Engineering, Yin Zhisong, expressed satisfaction of the Dangote Group in building cement plant across Africa. He said ‘It is an honour for us to build another cement plant for Dangote Group. We are proud and happy to be on this journey with the company again. When Operational, the plant is expected to have two lines by 6,000 TPD Clinker Production with Installed daily total capacity of 12,000 TPD of clinker production. It is expected to be completed within 27 months with best – in- class equipments in the Cement Industry, sourced from Europe’s major equipment suppliers. The plant will have its own captive power plant to generate electric power for use by Cement Klins and other processes. The Itori Cement Plant will be Dangote Cement four cement plant constructed as a green field project in Nigeria, the rest are Obajana, Ibese and Okpella Plants. Dangote Cement is Africa’s leading Cement Producer with 51.6 Mta production capacity across Africa with Nigeria accounting for 35. 26 Mta.
