Dangote Cement has opened its cement plant in Senegal. The plant located Pout district, about 75 kilometres from Dakar, the country’s capital, has the capacity to produce 4000 metric tonnes (MT) per day and 1.2 million MT per annum (pa).
According to Luk Haelterman, the country head, Dangote Industries in Senegal, the plant is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs, with a total production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes annually.
Haelterman said “In this country, Dangote will not only stop at producing cement, we also have helped beyond cement. This is the idea of the owner, to become a pan-African enterprise.
“Senegal is a market with over-capacity of cement (only 14m people), because it had two cement factories before now. But today, Dangote has become the biggest and best because we have and produce the 42.5R only, which is better than what we met on ground, which is the 32.5R.”
Sales and Marketing Director, Serigne M. Dieng, also said: ‘’Senegal with 14 million people and a GDP of 4 per cent (2013) has cement market of three million MT per year and a per capita consumption rate of 230kilogramme.