Burkina Faso: Germany's HeidelbergCement, together with local partners, is constructing a new US$50m cement grinding plant with a capacity of 0.65Mt/yr near the Burkina Faso capital city of Ouagadougou.
"The construction of the new cement grinding plant is part of our strategy of expanding our clinker and cement capacities in growth markets," said Dr Bernd Scheifele, Chairman of the group's managing board. "These include, in particular, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. For many years, we have exported cement to Burkina Faso from our grinding plant in Togo. Our new plant will strengthen our position in the country as well as in the whole region."
In the future HeidelbergCement's grinding facilities in Burkina Faso and the neighbouring countries of Togo, Benin and Ghana, will also receive their clinker from the a clinker plant in Togo. This facility will be commissioned in early 2015.
It is expected that the grinding plant project will stimulate improvement in local infrastructure and housing. It is expected to create more than 100 jobs at the plant, with even more indirect jobs locally. The project is to be conducted within the framework of a joint venture between HeidelbergCement and local partners and will be commissioned in late 2014.
