COUNTRY’S installed cement production has crossed 8.0 million tonnes per year surpassing aggregate demand by half, the Minister for Industries, Trade and Investment said.
Minister Charles Mwijage said today that
the country is currently cement sustainable and two more factories are
expected to be constructed in the western zone. “We will export the
excess capacity thus earning more foreign revenue,” Mr Mwijage said at a
morning breakfast programme aired by Clouds FM.
The figure suggests that Tanzania’s
installed cement capacity has surpassed that of Kenya which was
projected to produce 8.1 million tonnes per annum by 2018.
This is according to analysts at the
Standard Investment Bank (SIB), who made the projection in an East
Africa Cement Sector report released in January 2016.
It comes even as cement consumption
across East Africa is estimated to reach 17.5 million tonnes in 2019 due
to a sustained boom in the construction and real estate sector. In
2014, consumption in the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania and
Uganda is estimated to have stood at 10.16 million tonnes.
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