Dangote Cement- An Emerging Force in Global Cement Production
Dangote Cement is Africa’s leading cement producer with existing and planned operations in 16 African countries, revenues in excess of US$2 billion and nearly 17,000 employees.
Dangote is a fully integrated quarry-to-customer producer with production capacity of up to 43.3 million tonnes per annum (Mta) across Africa at the end of 2015. They are investing several billion dollars to build manufacturing plants and import/grinding terminals across Africa and by 2020 they plan to have more than 70Mta capacity across Africa and beyond.
They have operational facilities in Senegal, South Africa, Cameroon and Ghana (importation), Ethiopia, Zambia, Tanzania and are committed to building integrated production factories in Rep. Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe and outside of Africa, Nepal. They also plan to build import or grinding facilities in Sierra Leone, Liberia and add new grinding facilities Ghana.
All the company operations at manufacturing plants and cement terminals conform to NIS ISO 9001 : 2008 Quality Management System and NIS BS OHSAS 18001 : 2007 Occupational Health Management System.
Dangote Cement is the largest company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, having listed its shares in
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But they are not complacent. Just as they are opening new capacity to serve Africa`s rapidly growing demand for cement, they are planning yet more factories to support even higher demand in the future, both in Nigeria and in other African countries. Keeping ahead of a growing market requires not just long-term vision, but a constant attention to their daily operations. They have some of the finest engineers on the continent; their innovative minds and dedication to operational excellence are what enable Dangote Cement to achieve such high productivity on their assets, to the benefit of customers and shareholders
DeBeers founded in 1880’s became the world’s largest diamond mining and trading company in the world. When DeBeers was established it controlled around 45% of the world’s diamond production and sold over 80% of all diamonds produced. DeBeers used underhand tactics to remove smaller diamond mines and punished those who tried to break away from the DeBeers “empire”.
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The Dangote Group is the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa and one of the largest in Africa. It generated revenue in excess of US$2 billion in 2011. The group is one of the leading diversified business conglomerates in Africa. It employs in excess of 21,000 people. The Group focuses on provision of local, value-added products and services that meet the needs of the African population and that is why it is known all over the world today.
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wanted to see what kind of competition in growth they might see in Africa. With the
Dangote is one of the largest and most successful companies in Africa. The company is owned by the famous billionaire Aliko Dangote .The business is controlled by a great management team which consists of the President Ali`ko Dangote, Vice president, Sani Dangote, Executive director, Abdu Dantata, chief operating officer, Okakunlew Alake and other group directors. It has a reputation for outstanding business operation and products ‘quality. (Dangote, 2013) .The headquarters is in the western part of Nigeria, Lagos. The company’s enterprises include salt, sugar, cement, flour, pasta, real estate, noodles, fertilizer, spaghetti, oil, gas, steel, macaroni, logistics and poly products and runs in fourteen African countries. The following are their brands:
It is a company which has a expertise staff of 50 members and a annual turnover of 10 million US dollars.
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This company has broadened or expanded to other counties across the world Africa, Asia, Middle East and etc.)
..., authentic diamonds anymore. Diamond mining has supplied jobs over the years meaning that the people that have relied on mining for an income would be left jobless over time. If artificial diamonds replaced natural diamonds completely the African economy would suffer because diamond mining has been the country’s source of income for many years. Diamonds had helped to fund one of Botswana’s biggest HIV/AIDS programs that helped with the prevention and treatment of the diseases. ‘From a population of 1.6 million people, around 37% suffer from either HIV or AIDS.’
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Concrete is an extremely versatile and durable building material. Concrete can be used to build long lasting structures even in very harsh environments when it is made with adequate constituents and mix design and properly handled .performance problems that may arise occasionally are often due to the use of materials that do not full fill minimum quality requirements, unsatisfactory specifications or due to inappropriate construction methods.
It starts from OSH policy and objective of an company/organization. The OSHMS aim can be achieve if employees implementing and practicing what they have learned from the programmes conducted by their management. The OSH programmes like personal protective equipment, first aid, fire preventive plan, incident/accident investigation, hazard identification and many more are playing an important role to achieve the OSHMS’s aim. The management’s commitment towards safety and health like organizing training and education is resulting in raises the employees awareness on work place safety and health and employees’ involvement to success the safety and health programmes. To enhance the OSHMS, preventive and corrective action and continual improvement are playing an important role. So that the company/organization is keep moving forward successfully in achieving occupational safety and health management system’s
Zanko, M & Dawson, P 2012, ‘Occupational health and safety management in organizations: A review’, International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 14, no. 3, p 328-344, viewed 2 April 2014, http://ro.uow.edu.au/commpapers/2832/.
...ction. Product development, service delivery, materials purchasing, product design, and manufacturing operations must all be included. I Auditors will look for continuous improvement in the system. These improvements can include better education of employees, better communication of ideas from and to employees, better reporting of environmental impacts within the company, and improved identification of environmental aspects. ISO 14000