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Western Diamond Cement opens in Takoradi, Ghana
09 November 2015Ghana: Western Diamond Cement Limited (WDCL) has launched its product in Takoradi under the brand name 'Diamond Cement.' The company, which has the first vertical cement mill in Ghana, will produce 42.5 rapid and 32.5 rapid cements. It has 6500t of clinker storage.
Buddarajo Roju, Manager of Quality Control at Western Diamond Cement Limited, said that Ghana is a vibrant economy and that there is rapid growth in the whole of West Africa, especially infrastructural development. He said that the company is committed to implementing the Environmental Impact Statement to the Environmental Protection Agency and mitigation measures on dust generation, noise impact, as well as liquid and solid waste.
Ghana: Stanbic Bank Ghana has closed a US$20.2m loan deal with Western Diamond Cement Limited, a company in the West African Cement SA (WACEM) Group, to build a 1Mt/yr cement plant in Egyam Bokro, near Takoradi. Production will start in 2014.
WACEM has two associate companies currently operating in Ghana, namely, Savanna Diamond Cement Limited (SDCL) in the Northern Region, and Diamond Cement Ghana Limited (DCGL) in the Volta Region. Stanbic Bank's relationship with the WACEM Group started in 2011. WACEM has cement plants in West Africa including Niger and Burkina Faso, and with project stage plants in Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire. It has recently commissioned a plant in Mali.
The current cement production capacity in Ghana is 5.2Mt/yr. The project raises the number of cement plants Ghana to four, with the addition of a bagging plant that processes imported cement.