Lafarge Africa Plc is an industrial company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, and listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Company's brand products include Ashaka branded Portland limestone cement produced in Gombe State, Elephant and Superset cement produced by WAPCO, UniCem, Readymix Concrete, building aggregates, and Lafarge South African products such as artevia decorative concrete products, Buildcrete and DuraBuild cement, Dura-Pozz, Fast-Cast, Pozz-Fill, Powercrete Plus and SuperPozz.
[2] West African Portland Cement company began operations in 1961 at Ewekoro, the firm was formally established in 1959 as a joint venture between Blue Circle, United Africa Company of Nigeria and the Western regional government in Nigeria.
But not to be lose the market to local producers especially after a Nigerian Cement Company was commissioned at Nkalagu, Eastern Nigeria, Blue Circle joined a consortium that included the Western Nigeria government to establish a new kiln at Ewekoro.
Lafarge increased production at WAPCO in 2011 with the commissioning of an additional 2.2 million metric tonnes plant at Lakatabu, Ogun State.