Dangote Cement has had a bad run in recent times as its Zambian subsidiary has failed the Zambian Compulsory Standard Agency test which has led to the sacking of its Deputy Quality Manager in Zambia Raavi Venkataswamy of his duties. The Zambia Compulsory Standard Agency is the national agency charged with the responsibility of ensuring the public does not get substandard goods regularly carries out tests to ensure that goods on the market are of the recommended standard.
In view of this, the Zambia Compulsory Standard Agency in Mid December 2019, conducted some compressive strength tests for two and seven days respectively but that the results for the two tests where what he called “zero”.
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Sources at the Zambian Compulsory Standard Agency say that the quality issue has got many within the construction industry worried because Dangote is one of the major manufacturers of Cement in the country with a countrywide influence on the price of the commodity as it has outlets in all corners of the country despite the plant being based in Ndola.
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An officer of the Zambian Compulsory Standard Agency was quoted as saying that “we did two tests and the results on two and seven days of the quality of cement Dangote is producing is not up to standard. The results on the tests we did were zero. Usually the results at two days are 16/18mpa and at seven days 28/32mpa that is for 42.5 type of cement. “We were told to keep this as a secret so that Dangote can normalise the situation but I thought I could help somebody out there who is building.”
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However, a source from Dangote Cement said that the cement company has started recalling some products suspected to be compromised. The sources mentioned that two truck each of 600/bags were returned last week because of quality issues adding that there is wide spread panic within the company management fears that the company might lose the good reputation it has built with its clients which will lead to loss of business for the company.
Kelechi Deca
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