# Cimaf Gabon completes second grinding line and plans new clinker unit

Cimaf Gabon completed installation of a second grinding line with 350,000 tonnes capacity at its Owendo plant, costing CFAF 9 billion (EUR 13.7 million), to be inaugurated at end of June 2020. Separately, it is investing EUR 100 million to build a clinker processing unit at Ntoum, targeting total annual production of 850,000 tonnes.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2020-06-16
- Where: Owendo and Ntoum, Gabon, Gabon
- Value: $128.0M (113.7M EUR)
- Starts operating: Jun 2020
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 850,000 tonnes per year
- Products: cement, clinker
- Sectors: [Construction Materials](https://endata.com/sectors/construction-materials.md)

## Companies

- [Cimaf Gabon](https://endata.com/companies/47909.md)
- [Ciments de l'Atlas](https://endata.com/companies/47910.md) (investor)

## Sources

- [theafricareport.com](https://www.theafricareport.com/29965/moroccos-cimaf-prepares-for-clash-with-dangote-cement-in-gabon/), 2020-06-16: "Ciments de l’Afrique (Cimaf) Gabon has just completed the installation of a second grinding line, with a capacity of 350,000 tonnes, at its Owendo cement plant in the suburbs of Libreville."

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