DANGOTE Industries Zambia Limited will soon start mobilising equipment for the construction of a cement plant in Masaiti district on the Copperbelt, group head of corporate communications Anthony Chiejina has said.
Mr Chiejina said in a response to a media query yesterday that equipment would be mobilised soon for the US$400 million investment whose groundbreaking ceremony took place last month.
"Presently soil testing work is complete at the site. Design work is under progress. Mobilisation of machinery and execution team will start very soon," he said.
He said the execution team was also being mobilised for the cement manufacturing plant which will have a 1.5 million tonnes per annum capacity.
The plant will start production in 2013 in the peri-urban setting of the Copperbelt in Chief Chiwala's area.
Once complete, the company will provide more than 1,000 direct jobs and 6,000 indirect employment opportunities for the locals.
Dangote is a Nigerian based conglomerate with cement manufacturing plants in South Africa, Senegal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Gabon, and now establishing itself in Zambia.
It has clinker grinding and packaging plants in Cameroun, South Africa, Tanzania, and Ethiopia while bulk cement and packaging terminals are found in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leon, and Ivory Coast.
Dangote is also in manufacturing of sugar, flour, pasta, packaging material, salt, noodles, tomato paste, and vegetable oil.
Other operations are steel, telecommunications, oil and gas, petroleum refinery, fertiliser project, real estates, and heavy haulage.
A Times team found scores of people who are willing to be engaged at the site. Some of them said they had been inquiring each time officials from Dangote visited the area.
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