The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment (ZCCM-IH) is in the process of constructing a cement plant in Ndola with an initial investment of US$600 million.
ZCCM-IH chief executive officer, Pius Kasolo said the plant which would be built at Ndola Lime on the Copperbelt would be completed in three years and is expected to create over 1,000 permanent jobs.
Dr Kasolo said the plant’s production capacity would be 5,000 tonnes per day and would absorb a good number of retrenched miners on the Copperbelt.
He said at construction stage, ZCCM-IH would create about 10,000 jobs. reducing to 1,000 once construction was completed.
“We will be generating our own energy from the cement plant,” Dr Kasolo said.
Dr Kasolo said once the price of cement dropped further more people would be able to construct houses and factories.
He said the more the price of cement dropped, the more industrialised Zambia would be.
