Cement consumption in the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently around 40kg per capita, according to Jean Bamanisa Saidi, president of the RDC Concrete Expo 2016, which is currently being held in the country’s capital Kinshasa.

He added that new companies in Kongo Central will increase cement production in 2017, enabling the supply of cement equivalent to 100kg per capita as production is expected to be stepped up from 0.4Mt to 2.5Mt.