Lafarge Africa Plc

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of LafargeHolcim- the global construction materials and solutions company. It serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects. With four plants in Nigeria, Lafarge Africa Plc currently has an installed cement production capacity of 10.5 million metric tons per annum.

The company’s four solutions and products include Cement, Readymix, Mortar and Geocycle. The company’s core values are customers, results, integrity, sustainability, people, openness and inclusion and health and safety. The company reports that the Lafarge Holcim Group is reinventing how the world builds in a sustainable way to make it greener, smarter and for all. It further reports that Lafarge Africa is committed to this goal and its ambition is to become net-zero carbon emission in the near term.

Its quarry rehabilitation efforts together with initiatives to reduce the use of fossil fuel are aimed at sustainable biodiversity in its operations.

2020 Highlights

In the last quarter of 2020, Lafarge Africa Plc committed nearly US$5 million to a project that will result in dust emission control in line with global and sector best practices. In this respect, the Electrostatic Precipitator at the Ewekoro Plant is being changed to a modern system of a “Bag House” dust collection system. Similarly, execution is advanced with the company’s Agric-Ecology project, one of its sustainability initiatives aimed at addressing the interlinked challenges of poverty, food insecurity, climate change and natural resource degradation.

The company’s focus is on proximate communities located in Funakaye and Akko Local Government areas of Gombe State where the Ashaka Cement production plant and coal mine are respectively located. This initiative is having a positive  impact on the lives of the communities with improved yield in farm produce and expanded employment opportunities.

The company committed a total of N 500 million towards the provision of palliative materials including medical infrastructure, food and other essential items for residents within its host communities and states.

The Lafarge Africa’ s National Literacy Competition is the flagship of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives given its reach and positive impact on public school pupils in the country. The overarching theme of the initiative is to “Bridge the Literacy Gap Together”. As a result of the pandemic, the 2020 edition of the literacy competition was an essay competition with the theme “Building the Nigeria of our Dreams”. It had about 1,600 pupils in public primary and secondary schools participate. Since inception, 700,000 pupils have been impacted by the program.