Nigeria: Dangote Cement's new 6Mt/yr Calabar plant, in the Cross-River State, will be ready by the end of July 2012. Chairman Aliko Dangote made the announcement at the company's annual general meeting in Lagos.
According to Dangote the Calabar plant is almost completed, with a strategic location intended to supply both local consumers and those in Central African states like Cameroon and Gabon. Together with the planned expansion of the Ibese plant by 3Mt/yr, the June 2011 commissioning of the Obajana Plant and other operations in 14 other African countries, Dangote Cement aims to reach a capacity of 60Mt/yr by 2015. Of this total, 55% is intended to local consumption and 45% is intended for export to other sub-Saharan African countries.