https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Sephaku Cement projects, South Africa

4th April 2014

  

Font size: - +

Name and Location
Sephaku Cement projects, South Africa.

Client
Sephaku Cement, a subsidiary of Nigeria-listed Dangote Cement (64%) and associate of JSE-listed Sephaku Holdings (36%).

Project Description
The projects entail the construction of the Aganang integrated cement production facility, 35 km west of Lichtenburg, in the North West; and a cement-grinding facility, in Delmas, Mpumalanga.

It is estimated that the Aganang and Delmas cement plants will collectively deliver about 2.5-million tons a year of cement.

The Aganang operations will include limestone mining and the chemical processing of raw materials to produce clinker. The limestone deposit is located on the Stiglingspan, Verdwaal and Klein Westerford farms, 7 km south-west of Itsoseng. About half of the clinker will be ground, milled and blended to produce cement. The rest will be transported to the Delmas plant for further processing using fly ash produced at the fly ash classification plant, at Kendal power station, as an extender to produce the final cement.

The limestone quarry and the cement project have an expected life of between 30 and 40 years, depending on the availability of the delineated mineral resources and the guaranteed kiln production figures.

Value
Construction of the Aganang and Delmas plants will cost about R3.3-billion. Funding of the project is through secured shareholder equity of R1.2-billion and loan funding secured from Nedbank and Standard Bank.

Duration
Sephaku started construction on the Aganang and Delmas cement production facility in late 2011.
First production from the Delmas plant started in January 2014, with production from the Aganang plant expected in the second quarter of this year.

Latest Developments
Cement production started at Sephaku’s 1.4-million-ton-a-year Delmas milling plant in January and will ramp up to full output by mid-2014.

The cement producer has dispatched the first bags of cement from the plant to customers in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

The commissioning of Aganang  is under way, with production expected to start by the second quarter of this year.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
Nedbank Capital and Standard Bank (finance); Sinoma International Engineering (construction); Eskom (power-supply agreement for the plant in the North West) and Africa Geo-Environmental Services (environmental consultant for Limpopo plant).

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
Sephaku Cement, tel +27 861 555 2020 or fax +27 12 665 4391/+27 12 684 6402; or Shalini Ammon, email sammon@sepcem.co.za.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

Comments

Showroom

Flameblock
Flameblock

FlameBlock is a proudly South African company that engineers, manufactures and supplies fire intumescent and retardant products to the fire...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Weir Minerals Africa and Middle East
Weir Minerals Africa and Middle East

Weir Minerals Europe, Middle East and Africa is a global supplier of excellent minerals solutions, including pumps, valves, hydrocyclones,...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.096 0.147s - 159pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now