# Sino Zimbabwe Cement to commission brick and tile plant in Gweru

Sino Zimbabwe Cement Company will commission a $50 million brick and tile manufacturing plant in Gweru, Zimbabwe, in October 2018. The plant, a joint venture with the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe, will have an initial capacity of 60 million bricks per annum.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-09-04
- Where: Gweru, Zimbabwe
- Value: $50.0M
- Starts operating: Oct 2018
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 60 million bricks per annum
- Products: bricks, tiles, face bricks
- Sectors: [Construction Materials](https://endata.com/sectors/construction-materials.md)

## Companies

- [Sino Zimbabwe Cement Company](https://endata.com/companies/22632.md)
- [Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe](https://endata.com/companies/22635.md) (partner)
- [China National Materials Group Corporation (Sinoma)](https://endata.com/companies/34104.md) (investor)
- [China Building Materials Corporation (CBMC)](https://endata.com/companies/34105.md) (investor)

## Sources

- [zimbabwesituation.com](https://www.zimbabwesituation.com/news/sino-cement-to-commission-bricks-tiles-plant/), 2018-09-04: "Our brick manufacturing plant is almost complete; we expect it to be 100 percent complete in the next two months after which we will then do a test run."

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