Nigeria has launched a verification system for its steel in an attempt to ensure quality of products churned out from the country’s steel sector
Metals
Kenyan steel maker to invest in metal sheet production
Kenya-based steel company Devki Group will invest US$321.2mn in the manufacturing of metal sheets used to produce roofing sheets and key automobile components
Manganese smelter to be built in central Zambia
Zamanco Minerals Limited is to develop a manganese smelter in Serenje, central Zambia, at a cost of US$60mn
Baobab Resources to build pig iron facility in Mozambique
Baobab Resources has announced that it is likely to build a facility to produce two million tonnes of low impurity pig iron per year from its reserves in western Mozambiques Tete Province
Aluminium production suspended at ALSCON smelter in Nigeria
The board of directors of the ALSCON aluminium plant in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, has announced the immediate suspension of smelting operations at the plant