List of companies and cities in Africa that manufacture cement

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Countries

Angola

Benin

Burundi

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville)

Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa)

Djibouti

Egypt

Egypt is one of the biggest cement producers all over the world and the leading country in the middle East, Africa, and the Arabian Region with a total production capacity of 50 million tons of cement.

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Eritrea

Ethiopia

Ethiopia has 20 cement factories which produce mainly OPC and PPC cement. Two other cement factories are in the pipeline. As of 2017, production capacity in Ethiopian, according to the Ethiopian Reporter, [12] has increased to 15 million tonnes per year, but local consumption is only 6 million tonnes per year.

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Ghana

"Ghacem" is same as "Ghana Cement", and does not have 97% market share anymore because Buipe plant has been built, and is not really a subsidiary of Scancem, because Scancem is owned by Heidelberg Cement, and has two plants in Ghana : one in Tema, which was upgraded in November 2012 from 1.2 million tons per year to 2.2 Mton/year, and one in Sekondi-Takoradi which can produce 1.2 Mton/year. [19]

Guinea

Ivory Coast

Kenya

Liberia

Libya

Madagascar

Alpha Ciment - Ibity, (Antsirabe), Vakinankaratra

Malawi

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Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

Casablanca-Settat region

Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region

Fès-Meknès region

Marrakesh-Safi region

Oriental region

Béni Mellal-Khénifra region

Souss-Massa region

Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region

Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Senegal

Sierra Leone

South Africa

- Hercules (Pretoria) - Jupiter (Johannesburg) - Dwaalboom - Slurry - De Hoek - Riebeeck West - Port Elizabeth - Saldanha (Slag Grinding Only)

- Aganang (Lichtenburg) - Delmas (Grinding Station)

- Lichtenburg - Randfontein (Grinding Station) - Richards Bay (Grinding Station)

- Dudfield (Lichtenburg) - Ulco (Kimberly) - Roodepoort (Grinding Station) - Vanderbijlpark (Slag Grinding & Blending Station) - Brakpan (Blending Station)

- Simuma - Coedmore - Newcastle (Slag grinding and cement blending plant)

Sudan

Tanzania

Togo

Tunisia

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Uganda

Zambia

Lusaka

Ndola

Zimbabwe

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