The company Cimentos de Mocambique (CM – Cements of Mozambique) on Thursday inaugurated a new grinding mill at its factory in the southern city of Matola, which should almost double its production.With the new equipment, production at the Matola factory should rise from the current 700,000 tonnes to 1.3 million tonnes a year.The new mill is an investment of 18 million euros (about 25 million US dollars), and is part of the company’s expansion and modernization plans. These plans also include operational rehabilitation of the clinker line, switching the main fuel used from coal to natural gas, installing new filters, modernizing the electrical circuits, and replacing the bagging equipment.Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Francisco de Lacerda, chairman of the Portuguese giant Cimpor, which is the main shareholder in CM, declared that Mozambique is of enormous strategic importance for Cimpor.“Mozambique is a speedily developing market, in which we have a very strong presence”, said Lacerda. “We are totally committed to the development of Mozambique”.After the international decline in demand for cement in 209, there had been a clear recovery in Mozambique, he said “where we recorded a 12.7 per cent growth in our sales of cement in 2010”.He claimed that CM now has a market share of over 80 per cent in Mozambique. In addition to the Matola plant, CM also operates factories in the central town of Dondo, and the northern port of Nacala.Lacerda said that a new mill will shortly be installed in the Dondo factory, and studies are under way for a new furnace in Dondo. These investments will allow the Dondo factory to triple its production by 2013, and by 2018 it should be able to supply all the cement requirements of central Mozambique.
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