As part of plans to meet the demand of both local and foreign customers for cement, Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria says it is set to double its production capacity in August with the commissioning of a new cement factory in Ewekoro, Ogun state.
Announcing this during a media tour of the new cement factory in Ewekoro, recently, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Samy Abdelkader said with work approaching completion at the new cement plant, the plant is expected to double the current production capacity of the company with 2.5 million tones when it commences production in August.
He said that the new plant is Lafarge’s own way of responding to the federal government’s backward integration policy which aims at self-sufficiency in cement production.
According to him, the 2.5 million tones of cement addition to Lafarge Cement WAPCO would go along way in achieving an appreciable stability in the nation’s cement sub-sector and that the availability will in the long run impact positively on the affordability on the side of the customers.
With this development, he explained that Lafarge Cement WAPCO will be contributing about 12,000 tones of cement to the Nigeria cement market on a daily basis, after the commissioning of the Lakatabu plant in August, adding that the new plant would be a further testimony to the company’s leadership in innovation, as it has the capacity to produce four different qualities of cement to customers requirement better.
In line with the company’s commitment in engaging young Nigerians in gainful employment, Abdelkader said over 3000 people were engaged during the two-and-half years of building the state of the art plant with 70 per cent of them being Nigeria.
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