Chad: Société National de Cimenterie (SONACIM) has placed an order with a China-based machine parts supplier for a part for its Baoré grinding plant’s generator. Alwihda News has reported that previously ordered the part from a supplier based in Egypt, which since failed to make the delivery. Cement production has been suspended at the plant since early July 2022, pending delivery of the missing part.
SONACIM’s deputy director general Koye Ndaye Benoît said “As soon as the part arrives, production will be restarted.”
430 people are employed in SONACIM’s operations in Chad.
