PPC - October 2013

PPC, southern Africa’s leading cement supplier, has announced plans to build a new 1Mta plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DRC’s Barnet Group to construct the greenfield plant 20km from Kimpese in the west of the country. Costing US$230m the plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2015.