SLASHING ENERGY
CONSUMPTION
By Robyn Grimsley
AfriSam is South Africa’s second-largest cement producer, and its Ulco cement plant in the Northern
Cape is one of the company’s two fully integrated cement plants operating in the country. First
established in 1936 to manufacture industrial lime, today the plant has an annual cement production
capacity of 1 250 000 tonnes.
AfriSam’s Ulco cement plant is a fully integrated facility, with on-site
limestone and shale quarries.
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