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Ghana: recovery anticipated after cement sales fall 3.1% in 2015

14 September 2016, Published under Cement News

The Business & Financial Times reports that domestic cement sales in Ghana fell to 4.13Mt in 2015, down by 3.1 per cent on the previous year. Cement imports reached 2.62Mt, up 6.2 per cent on 2014. The decline was not due to falling demand but instead reflects the ongoing issues with electricity supply, that has disrupted production. The newspaper quotes sources at two of the domestic producers who noted that production recovered as politicians moved to improve electricity supplies ahe...

Ghana: Pozzolana Cement to make redundancies?

19 July 2016, Published under Cement News

Management at Pozzolana Ghana Ltd is considering redundancies or the temporary shutting down of the company following power outages. According to Collins Opoku Gyan, production manager, the company cannot afford to continue paying salaries at a time when no profits are being made. “We have workers that we have employed and paying them, if there is no light, we can’t work. We have to pay them too, so it is costing the company a lot. If nothing is being done about it, the best thing is that...