::Cement Company of Northern Nigeria plc::



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Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Plc produces and markets SOKOTO Ordinary Portland cement in strict compliance with the Nigeria Standards quality assurance. Read more>>> LATEST NEWS Damnaz Cement Company Limited was established Read more>>>		HISTORY Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Plc (CCNN) was founded by the Premier of the then Northern Region, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto. It was incorporated in 1962 and commenced production in 1967 with an initial installed capacity of 100,000 tonnes per annum, using the wet process of production, at the Kalambaina Plant. The need to meet the increasing demand for cement necessitated the expansion of the Plant with the commissioning of a Second line with an installed capacity of 500,000 tonnes per annum in 1985, by the then Head of state, Major General Muhammadu Buhari. Thereafter, in 1986, the first line was shut down due to its uneconomic mode of operation, thus leaving the plant with a rated out put of 500,000 tonnes per annum. Under the privatization and commercialization programme of the Babangida Administration in 1992, the Federal Government disinvested about 20% of its holding in the company and sold it to Nigerian public. Under the civilian administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Plc was earmarked as one of the companies to be fully privatized. In July 2000 therefore, public bidding for the Company was concluded and Scancem International ANS of Norway, a member of HeidelbergCement group was appointed as core investor and technical partner of the Company. Following a strategic reorientation, Heidelberg Cement Group divested its CCNN Shares in March 2008. The Nigerian Company Damnaz Cement Company Limited became CCNN’s new core investor. Damnaz Cement Company Limited (Damnaz) was established in May 2007 as a ‘special purpose vehicle” to acquire HeidelbergCement’s 50.7% shares of CCNN and 93% share of Societe Nigerienne de Cimenterie (SNC) in Republic of Niger. It acquired the shares in both CCNN and SNC in March 2008.