In early July 2009, President Jakaya Kikwete inaugurated a cement project for the Tanzania Portland Cement Company (TPCC) located at Wazo Hill area, about 25 Kilometers north of the Dar es Salaam city. The project known as ‘TPCC-Expansion Project- Production Line No. 4’ is a new production facility whose main objective of the expansion is to increase the cement production capacity so as to cater for the current and future local market demand. The new facility involves the installation of a new kiln machine which is able to produce 2,500 metric tones of clinker per day. This is the intermediary product to a new cement mill with a capacity of producing 650,000 metric tones of cement per year. The newly installed production line is comprised of the following elements, a new crushing machine for limestone from the quarry with its two new storages able to carry 20,000 metric tones for the crushed limestone. Another element is a new dispatch facility with four bays, these are cement silo which are strategically designed to load cement on the trucks brought in the yard by customers. These have a capacity of carrying 7,500 metric tones of cement. The area on which the newly constructed production line No. 4 lies occupies an area of 320,000 square meters covering a surface of approximately more than 75 acres of land (99 years lease) owned by Twiga cement company.
President Jakaya Kikwete is being welcomed by the out-going Managing Director of the Tanzania Portland Cement Mr. Klaus Hvassing. President Kikwete was the guest of honour during the inauguration of the newly installed production plant 4of the factory at Wazo Hill on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam city. 
Before inauguration, President Kikwete was taken round the factory alongside with his entourage which started from the grinding section whereby he was informed on various activities done as this is the initial stage of the clinker preparation.
This is the new grinding machine of the factory
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