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Mozambique: Dugongo Cimentos plans to build a US$192m, 6000t/day cement plant at Nacala-Porto in Nampula Province. The Macao News has reported that the producer expects the plant to create 600 new jobs locally.

Dugongo Cimentos previously inaugurated its 2500t/day Matutuine cement and clinker plant in Maputo Province following a total investment of US$330m in 2021. The company is jointly owned by state-owned SPI Gestão e Investimentos and China-based West International Holding.

Mozambique: Singapore’s Compact Metal Industries has failed to buy a majority stake in a partially built cement plant at Salamanga, Bela Vista in Maputo Province. Compact Metal Industries was planning to pay US$30m for a 51% stake in the plant in a deal with SPI and Guhavam, according to the Business Times of Singapore newspaper. The arrangement would have also seen Compact Metal Industries settle the project’s debts to suppliers and contractors to a value of US$55m.

Mozambique: Singapore’s Compact Metal Industries plans to buy a 51% stake in a partially built cement plant at Salamanga, Bela Vista in Maputo Province. Construction of the 5000t/day plant started in 2012 and it has been ‘substantially’ completed, according in a financial filing by Compact Metal Industries. The unit is owned by CIF-MOZ, a joint venture owned by SPI (54%) and Guhava (45%). Compact Metal Industries intends to buy 34% from SPI and 17% from Guhava. As part of the deal it will settle any existing debts to suppliers and then complete the plant. Completion of the plant is expected to take around eight months.