Welcome To Tanzania Portland Cement Company Limited

Tanzania Portland Cement Company Limited (TPCC) is the largest cement producing company in Tanzania. It is part of Heidelberg Cement Group. It was established in 1966 with the principal activity of manufacturing and selling of cement.

The first bag of cement rolled out at Wazo Hill in mid-1966. But due to development of events TPCC was nationalized in 1978 and later privatized in 1998. Heidelberg Cement currently holds 69.25 per cent of shares via Scancem International DA with the general public of the United Republic of Tanzania holding the remaining 30.75 per cent. The shares of TPCC are actively traded on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE).

Since its inception, TPCC has produced high quality cement conforming to the standards issued by Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS). The company currently produces five main brands of cement, and Twiga ordinary (42.5N), Twiga Plus (42.5N), Twiga extra (32.5R), Twiga Super (32.5N) and Twiga Jenga (MC 22.5X)

An expansion program to increase the production capacity to 1.4 million metric tons per year was completed at the beginning of 2009.  TPCC increased its capacity under the project named CM5 to a capacity of 2.0 million metric tons per year by August 2014.

Today, TPCC remains the market leader in the cement industry in Tanzania holding approximately 35 to

40 percent of the cement market share.

Being the market leader TPCC has supplied cement to many sensitive and complicated projects in

Tanzania to include;

New National Stadium, Bus Rapid Transit, Kigamboni Bridge, Mwenge to tegeta Road, Kilwa road, Multi storey structures like PSPF, Uhuru heights, Rita, NHC, Phase3 JK Nyerere International Airport, Tazara flyover, Ubungo Flyover and many others.

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