Mombasa Cement Limited (MCL) is an industrial company in

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specializing in the manufacture of construction materials. The company maintains its headquarters in the city of

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and has offices and warehouses in

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, with manufacturing plants in

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and in Vipingo, in

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. According to its website, as of May 2022, MCL had installed production capacity of 3.3 million metric tonnes of cement annually. The privately owned business markets its products under the NYUMBA brand.

Location

The headquarters of MCL are located in the neighborhood called ''Mikindani'', in the port city of Mombasa, along the shores of the

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. The geographical coordinates of the company headquarters are , Latitude:-4.007778; Longitude:39.617222).

Overview

Mombasa Cement Limited is a large cement manufacturer in

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. As of March 2016, MCL was the second-largest producer of cement in Kenya, with a 15.8 percent market share, behind market leader

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with a 32.6 percent market share, but ahead of third-placed East African Portland Cement Company, with 15.1 percent market share.

Philanthropy

Mombasa Cement Limited is a family-owned business. The patriarch is described as "shy" and prefers to remain anonymous. Under his leadership, MCL supports a program that distributes food to over 40,000 Mombasa residents every week. The program started in 2008, on year after MCL was founded and has run continuously since. It has also set up schools and police stations, including the Sahajanand Special School, a school serving over 800 children with physical and mental disabilities. In 2017, the company partnered with

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to refurbish the Mombasa Tusks Monument.

Mombasa Cement Wind Power Station

In 2018, the company's clinker factory in Vipingo missed work on 16 days in the year, on account of electricity blackouts imposed by

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(KPLC), the national electricity utility distribution company. This led to the cement maker missing its production and financial targets for the year. To mitigate against the unreliable power supply, Mombasa Cement decided to build this wind farm to power its clinker and grinding factories in

, with the surplus power sold to KPLC.

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