Tanzania’s Motisun Group in Mozambique

[Geza Ulole]

Through its operations in four countries MMI Steel says it creates direct and indirect employment of more than 5000 people across the region.
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MWANZA, Tanzania – Tanzania's Motisun Group, through its subsidiary, MM Integrated Steel Mills Mozambique, is setting up a mini steel mill in Nacala, Mozambique.

The group, engaged in production and manufacturing of steel owns similar mills in Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania.

This year the group aims at commissioning and beginning commercial production of three of its on-going projects.

These are a steel plant at Nacala, Mozambique, a fruit processing, juice filling and packaging plant in the Bagamoyo District, Tanzania and a copper cable plant in Ndola, Zambia.

MM Integrated Steel Mills Tanzania spokesman Abubakar Mlawa admitted that the Nacala plant is in its final touches although he could not disclose the exact date for the launching.

"We have such plants in Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania and we may need to expand more," Mlawa said. He declined to talk figures on how much the Nacala plant would cost.Motisun Group has a multi-million dollar investment in steel, mining, cement, plastics, paints, food processing, hospitality, construction and cable.

Its investments are in Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Congo-DRC, Malawi and Sudan.

In Zambia, Motisun Group invested more than $40 million for the establishment of a roofing sheets manufacturing plant.

The Zambia plant for corrugated roofing sheets has an installed capacity of 4,000 tonnes a month and employing 200 people.

The MM Integrated Steel Mills Ltd plant in Dar es Salaam has an installed capacity of 24,000 tones of corrugated iron sheet per annum.

In Uganda MM Integrated Steel Uganda Limited, is one of the leading manufacturers of steel in the region.

MM Integrated Steel Mills, Uganda was set to produce 50,000 metric tonnes of steel products a year including iron bars, iron sheets and storage tanks with direct job openings being around 1,800 people.

MMI began in Tanzania about 18 years ago with the main focus in steel and has set a footing into other industry sectors including hotels, carbonated drinks, plastics and paints.

The steel business began growing in Africa when they invested $50 million in a new manufacturing facility in Lusaka, Zambia, which became operational in 2010---this was followed up by the Ugandan plant.

The company operates some big hotels in Tanzania and has started building an iron mining plant at Mchuchuma, Southern Tanzania.

Motisun Group has become one of the most successful business brands in Tanzania and East and Central Africa.



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The story of Motisun Group is similar to a number of Tanzania's leading multinational companies. Its history can be traced back 80 years when Subhash's father started a small shop in a village called Lugoba."I started my entrepreneurial life as a shopkeeper in my father's shop and later on as a trader selling spices. In 1976, Idecided to try my hand at the automobile business and started my spare parts business. As the business picked up, I went on to open my own garage in 1977." In the early 1990s, as Tanzania slowly emerged from a socialist economy that was not friendly to investment, Subhash took the opportunity of the improved business environment to invest in a scrap steel mill in 1994.
Since then, Subhash has gone on to build a business empire that not only is the largest manufacturer of steel sheeting and pipes, but also rubber, paint and fizzy drinks. It also runs one of the finest hotel& resort chains in Tanzania under the Sea Cliff and White Sands brand names. The single thread that binds all these businesses is Quality, Service and Value.

 

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Tanzania firm invests in a U.S.$40 million plant in Zambia



Dar es Salaam: Tanzania's MM Steel Integrated Steel Mills Ltd has made its foray into the southern African market with a $40 million plant in Zambia. The investment is in two phases with $20 million going into the first phase of the plant for production of corrugated roofing sheets with installed capacity of 4,000 tonnes a month and employing 200 people.

The firm's public relations officer Abubakari Mlawa said the other $20 million will go into the second phase in which the firm will be manufacturing colour roofing sheets.

Mr Mlawa said that the Zambia investment is important taking into account that there are potential markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

By investing in Zambia, MM Steel Integrated Steel Mills Limited aims to strengthen relationships and securely capture flat steel demand which is expected to grow.

The firm's director of finance and administration Narendra Jain said of the company's production of 4,000 tonnes a month, 2,500 tonnes would be exported to the DRC, Malawi, Botswana, Mozambique, Angola and Namibia.

"We already have markets in DRC, Malawi and Mozambique but as soon as our production is up we will go to Angola and Namibia," he said. About 1,500 tonnes of corrugated roofing sheets would be produced a month for the local market in Zambia.

The MM Integrated Steel Mills Ltd plant in Dar es Salaam has an installed capacity of 24,000 tonnes of corrugated iron sheet per annum. MM is the second major plant in Tanzania after Aluminium Africa Ltd.

According to MM Steel managing director Subhash Patel, the Tanzania plant was borne of a need to make something of the large quantities of scrap metal in the country. Tanzania's production of steel averaged 10,000 tonne per annum then against a 100,000-tonne market demand.

Mr Patel said MM Steel is in a joint venture with National Development Company to start producing sponge iron for the local market. He said the production of sponge iron would begin in 10 years and that the two partners have started to finance the project to its full capacity.

Tanzania will become the third country in Africa to produce its own iron after South Africa and Zimbabwe. The feasibility study of the project has so far been completed and revealed that the project would need $100 million for its execution. The initial estimates put iron ore deposits in the Liganga project area at 45 million tonnes.

The project can produce up to 250,000 tonnes of iron ore annually against the country's current needs of 100,000 tonnes annually. The NDC and MM Steel will also operate the Maganga Matitu section of the Liganga iron ore project.