National Cement _ Lemi Plant, with its recent plant at Lemi in addition to Dire Dawa, is currently a member of the joint venture formed between East African Holding and West International Holding (WIH), a multi-billion stock market listed Chinese industrial enterprise, in the following developments;
With its Lemi plant completed in September 2024, National Cement alone now covers more than 50% of the current cement demand of Ethiopia. The joint venture partners National Cement Share Company and West China Cement / West International Holding Co. Ltd/ have entered an agreement for USD 2.2 billion investment to be carried out at different phases. The first phase of the project valued at $600 million entails six projects to be built in in 270 hectares of land in Lemi Industrial Park located 130 km from Addis Ababa in northern part of Amhara region.
The projects include:
• 10,000 TPD Clinker or 4.5 million tons of Cement (PPC) per year (completed)
• 30 million m 2 Gypsum board and 400,000 tons of Gypsum powder plants p.a.
• Concrete pole, prefabricated housing & Colbert pipe plant (to be commissioned on Jan 15, 2023)
• Batching plant (already commissioned)
• Aggregate production plant (already commissioned)
Curbing the gap in supply; demand of cement with additional quantity of 10,000 tons per day clinker production, or 4.5 million tons p.a. of cement.
