Portland Cement Zambia has made history in Ndola with a surplus of 1, 00, 000 tonnes in annual cement production. The outcome has come as a result of an additional demand of cement in the Ndola Housing Project. The estimated output for this cement plant was close to 3, 60, 000 tonnes annually with a per day output of 1000 tonnes. However, the factory registered a total of 4, 73, 985 tonnes as annual production for the year ending 2014.
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Experts believe that this is a sign of healthy development from the Zambezi Portland Cement Factory as the output was not possible if there didn’t exist teamwork, synchronization and exceptional leadership quality. The event has made the Portland Cement factory Zambia as one of the best performing heavy scale units in Africa with almost 130% result of expected output.
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The incident has also motivated Dr. Rajan Mahtani to invest further in Masaiti in the form of a lime plant which will be creating an additional employment opportunities for 150 people within a span of 24 months. To recapitulate, ZPC is the same cement factory which had once out thrown the monopoly of the cement giant, Lafarge, in Africa. Today ZPC has become a ZS ISO 9001:2008 certified factory and has been granted recognition from the Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS).