The project is part of
"Currently, the DMX plant is being installed and is set to be completed in the second half of 2020, while the
Lafarge has been manufacturing DMX products for several years albeit on a small scale and the new plant once completed is expected to improve the company's manufacturing capacity per year by over 700 percent from the current 7 000 tonnes to 50 000 tonnes.
The DMX product range includes tile adhesives, agricultural lime, tile gout, cement based paints and water proofing compound.
However, current volumes for the DMX business grew by 100 percent in the company's half year performance to
"Revenue for the six months grew by 27 percent to ZWL 1.1 billion (
The company started the year on a satisfactory note with first quarter volumes marginally exceeding the same prior comparable period by 1.4 percent before the onset of the COVID-19 lockdown which caused a significant drop in the monthly volumes of
The volumes however recovered in May and
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