President Jakaya Kikwete tours TPCC factory plant at Wazo.

The project was internally funded at approximately US$ 108 million (Tshs. 120 billion) through TPCC itself and through its mother group the Germany based Heidelberg Cement Group, a leading group in Cement manufacturing, as well as Ready-Mix and Aggregates businesses. The turnkey contract for the building of the new production facility was signed in March 2007 and ended in June 2009. The new machines are currently in operation and depends entirely on the lime and red soil materials which are obtained from raw material deposit (sustainable for over 45 years located at an average of 3 Km from the plant). Iron oxide materials for cement production is obtained locally from Chunya, Mbeya. Gypsum is purchased locally from Kilwa, Itigi and Dodoma. When the local resources fails to meet requirement, both gypsum and iron oxide would be imported. While the new production line is in operation, the old kiln 2 and kiln 3 of the old plant machine has been stopped for a while, and the machines are undergone for a minor repair The project proponent commissioned the center for Energy, Environment Science and Technology. The design of the project was established by TPCC engineers assisted by Norplan Consulting Engineers who worked in collaboration with technical experts from the center of Heidelberg Cement Group, Africa area based in Brussels, Belgium. These were put in orderly manner by a team of specialized engineers recruited from the Heidelberg Cement Group. The engineers of this group are all experienced in such type of projects through all other locations worldwide.

President Kikwete is shown the clinker machine which consumes about 1,500 volts of electricity in order to be able to dry the final cement product which passes through to be packed into 50kg bags in package section.