Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria plc has announced that it has successfully produced its first 2.5 million metric tons of cement for the Nigerian market at its new Ewekoro II plant in Ogun State.
This achievement was attained eight weeks after the plant produced its inaugural clinker.
The greenfield cement plant will double the overall volume of Lafarge WAPCO’s products (including Elephant Cement and Elephant Supaset) supplied into the Nigerian market, from 2 million to 4.5 million metric tons.
Speaking on this achievement, Samy Abdelkader, the plant’s CEO, said “the importance of this historic milestone in our 50 years of quality cement production is that very soon enough cement will be readily available for Nigerians.”
Continuing, Abdelkader said “our company has fully keyed into the Federal Government’s Backward Integration Policy, which aims at self-sufficiency in cement production.”
In order to ensure continuous production without power interruption, the new Ewekoro II plant is supported by a 90mw power plant, commissioned June 2011, by the Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
Upon the official commissioning of the plant, Lafarge Cement will be adding about 12,000 tons of cement to the Nigeria cement market every day.
“We are convinced that there will be an appreciable stability of supply in the cement sub-sector when there is more volume of cement made available to Nigerians.
“The new plant will also be a testimony to the company’s leadership in innovation as it has the capacity to produce four different varieties of cement to better serve customers’ special requirements,” the CEO stated then.
Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria is a leading manufacturer and marketer of cement, which is also a subsidiary of France-based Lafarge SA, the world leader in building materials.
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