Driving Africa’s Low-Carbon Future: Dangote Cement Commits to 100% CNG Fleet

… targets 29% emissions lower, invests ₦12.4B in Group Growth in 2024

As a part of its daring strikes geared toward decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions and enhancing vitality safety, Africa’s main cement producer, Dangote Cement Plc has disclosed it has up to now co-processed over 1.5 million tonnes of different fuels within the 4 years thus considerably decreasing its carbon footprint.

The transfer underscores the corporate’s dedication to reducing carbon emissions, enhancing vitality safety, and setting a benchmark for sustainable industrialization throughout Africa.

Chatting with international viewers on the Africa CemTrade Summit which simply led to Accra, Ghana, the Group Managing Director of Dangote Cement, Mr. Arvind Pathak stated since 2021 when the Firm launched into vitality diversification, it has efficiently deployed 15 various gas methods throughout its vegetation, reaching as much as 40 per cent thermal substitution in operations throughout its vegetation in sub-sahara Africa particularly in Senegal, Zambia, and South Africa.

Pathak who spoke on the theme, theme “Sustainable Innovation within the Sub-Saharan Africa Cement Distribution Worth Chain,” stated with the shift to Various Gasoline, his cement Firm has been changing industrial, agricultural, and municipal wastes into vitality, noting that the initiative types a part of the corporate’s broader decarbonisation goal geared toward reducing carbon emissions by twenty per cent by 2030.

He emphasised that Dangote Cement which has expanded its footprint throughout eleven nations, with a manufacturing capability of 55 million tonnes yearly, is main a transformative shift in direction of sustainability in Africa’s cement distribution sector, combining environmental stewardship with profitability declaring that sustainability sits on the core of the corporate’s enterprise mannequin, influencing each facet from manufacturing to logistics.

Pathak defined that central to its inexperienced transition programme was the Funding in compressed pure gasoline (CNG) logistics which have seen Firm acquired over 3,000 CNG vans and 1,000 dual-fuel automobiles deployed, considerably decreasing emissions and transport prices. The corporate goals for a completely CNG-powered fleet in Nigeria by 2026, concentrating on a 29 per cent discount in carbon emissions per vitality unit consumed.

Dangote Cement’s sustainability technique is additional supported by its digital transformation drive, which has launched methods such because the Distributor Administration System (DMS), Transport Administration System (TMS), and Digital Proof of Supply (e-POD), enhancing transparency, route optimisation, and provide chain effectivity.

Based on him, the corporate has mapped greater than 65,000 shops in Nigeria and continues to increase throughout key regional commerce corridors. By way of its Buyer Truck Empowerment Scheme (CTES), Dangote Cement has distributed over 4,000 vans to move companions, creating jobs and enhancing reliability in cement supply.

In 2024 alone, the corporate invested over N12.4 billion in neighborhood growth tasks throughout its host nations, a fourfold enhance from the earlier yr, protecting training, healthcare, infrastructure, and youth empowerment.

As Dangote Cement continues to spend money on low-carbon operations and progressive applied sciences, it units a benchmark for sustainable industrialization throughout Africa.

“Dangote Cement Plc has taken the lead in driving sustainable transformation throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa’s cement worth chain. We’re reaffirming our dedication to innovation and accountable progress. Sustainability has by no means been an afterthought for us; it’s central to how we develop, innovate, and function,” he said. For Africa’s industrial future to stay viable, sustainability should make financial sense. Our technique ensures profitability whereas defending the planet.”

The Dangote Cement CEO stated the Firm has over the previous twenty years, Dangote Cement expanded from a neighborhood producer right into a continental chief, working in eleven nations with an put in capability of 55 million tonnes every year. Past scale, Pathak stated, the corporate’s distinction lies in its deliberate shift in direction of lower-carbon operations, contributing to Africa’s sustainable industrialisation.

Mentioned he: “We recognised early on that sustainability would form the way forward for manufacturing. Our investments in course of optimisation, cleaner fuels, and superior vitality methods are serving to us cut back waste, enhance effectivity, and construct stronger competitiveness. We’re proving that financial efficiency and local weather accountability can transfer collectively.”

Dangote Cement continues to play an energetic position in international and regional partnerships for sustainable building as a founding member of the World Cement and Concrete Affiliation (GCCA) and a companion of the United Cities and Native Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) to advertise low-carbon cement requirements, together with the Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) initiative.

In her comment on the occasion, Dangote Cement’s Deputy Head of Sustainability, Oyekemi Oyelola stated the corporate’s mannequin demonstrates that industrial progress and environmental accountability can coexist.

“We see a future the place Africa’s cement trade turns into a benchmark for sustainable industrialization globally. Our mission is to make sure that Dangote Cement leads that transformation, driving innovation, creating worth, and serving to Africa construct not solely stronger buildings however a stronger, greener future.”