Botswana: Cheetah Cement is planning to build a new cement grinding plant in Gaborone with a production capacity of 0.8Mt/yr, which it happens will increase domestic cement production and reduce reliance on imports.
According to the Sunday Standard newspaper, the proposed Gaborone plant will expand Cheetah Cement's manufacturing footprint and increase the local supply of cement used in housing, commercial developments and infrastructure projects.
Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC) said that strengthening domestic value chains, including sourcing raw materials locally where feasible, remained important in developing Botswana’s manufacturing sector.