GHACEM Limited anticipates that it will double production capacity at its Tema factory by the end of the year, the Managing Director Mr. Morten Gade has announced.
‘’This welcome development is dependent upon the completion of an extra production unit at the Tema factory. This will shoot the production level up to 2.2 million tonnes, from the current capacity of 1.2 million tonnes,’’ he said.
“Currently, the construction of an additional production unit at our Tema factory is ongoing and expected to be completed by the end of the year 2012,” he stated last Friday in Cape Coast.
Mr. Gade was delivering a keynote address at an occasion held at the Centre for National Culture (CNC) to distribute bags cement to beneficiaries of the GHACEM Cement Foundation from the Southern Sector, which comprises the Western, Central, Greater Accra, Eastern and Volta Regions.
In all, about 25,650 bags of cement were distributed to health (hospitals) and educational institutions (schools) from 113 communities, in line with the foundation’s mandate to help speed up the development agenda of deprived areas of the country.
He said: “It is indeed the fervent hope of the foundation’s Executive Council that beneficiaries use the cement for the intended purposes,” Mr. Gade noted; adding, however, that “We will not hesitate to take drastic action against any institution(s) found to abuse this noble objective.
“Such culprits will forever be blacklisted from this gesture by Ghacem if found culpable of abuse,” he added.
Dr. George Dawson Ahmoah, the Strategy and Corporate Affairs Director of Ghacem who later spoke to the media, explained that donation of the cement formed part of GHACEM’s corporate social responsibility which also reflects in its slogan ‘Ghacem, the nation builder’.
He disclosed that about 15,000 bags of cement will also be donated to schools and hospitals in the Northern Sector at the beginning of the last quarter of the year, at an event scheduled to take place at a venue to be announced soon.
The chairman of the foundation, Nana Prah Agyensaim VI, who chaired the occasion, congratulated the beneficiary institutions and entreated them to put the donation to good use “so that many more requests will be honoured to enable us achieve our objective as a company that prides itself as ‘the nation builder’.”
He called on heads of educational and medical institutions to take advantage of the benevolence of Ghacem and apply for cement to aid the infrastructural development of their outfits. Nana Prah Agyensaim VI also urged all present to encourage their families and children not to engage in argument and rancor during the voters registration exercise that is ongoing.
