Angolan producers plan to place more cement on the market
Angolan cement factories Nova Cimangola and Secil Lobito plan to place some 4.5Mta of cement on the Angolan market in the medium-term, the national director of construction materials of the Public Works Ministry said in Luanda Tuesday.
Speaking to the press, on the sidelines of a meeting with construction company officials, Manuel Fernando Victor said that Nova Cimangola had already normalized the problems it recently faced of a lack of materials.
According to Victor, Nova Cimangola can place 1.2Mt of cement on the market per year, whilst Secil Lobito produces 240,000tpa.
He added that Secil Lobito was producing cement on a regular basis, but the total amount produced by the two factories was not enough to meet the needs of the market.
Victor said that Nova Cimangola had pledged to import 2Mt of cement and Secil to import 500,000t of cement.
Victor noted that the Council of Ministers had recently approved construction of a cement factory in Lobito and expansion of the existing one (Secil Lobito), as well as another factory currently being built in Luanda. Published under Cement News
