Cameroon begins operations with 1.5Mta grinding plant in Douala. Ethiopia opens 2.5Mta factory in Mugher. Zambia opens 1.5Mta factory in Ndola. Dangote Cement joins the Premium Board of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Dangote opens Ibese plant in Ogun state, near Lagos, with 6Mta across two lines. Obajana increases capacity by 5Mta with the opening of Line 3. Ghana operations consolidated into DCP accounts.
Commissioned the Obajana Cement Plant with two production lines and capacity of 5 million tonner per annum, making it the largest plant in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dangote Industries acquired Obajana Cement Plc. from Kogi State Government, though no factory existed at this time.
SepCem started producing clinker and cement. Delmas (South Africa) opens 1.5 Mta capacity. Aganang (South Africa) opens 1.8 Mta capacity. Ibese extends capacity by 6Mta to 12Mta. Obajana extends capacity by 3 Mta to 13Mta. Senegal begins operations with 1.5Mta integrated plant.
Dangote Industries transfers its pan-African (non-Nigerian) cement interests to Dangote Cement and the construction of SepCem plants begins
Name changed from Obajana Cement Plc to Dangote Cement Plc and is currently the largest quoted company in Nigeria, accounting for about 30% of the Nigerian Stock Exchange by market capitalisation, following its merger with Benue Cement Company Plc in October 2010
