Billionaire steel magnate, Sikander Lalani steels show on 79th birthday; ‘gifts’ himself 4th steel factory⏤ a 150,000 per annum cold rolling mill

Billionaire, Sikander Lalani’s Roofings Group, yesterday, 4th October 2023 kickstarted the construction of its phase 4 expansion phase⏤ a 150,000 tonnes-a-year cold rolling plant at the Kampala Industrial Business Park (KIBP) in Namanve, on the outskirts of Kampala City.  This is the fourth expansion phase after the company established its first USD 2 million investment into an iron sheets plant in Lubowa. This was in 2010, expanded to include a combined 130,000 tonnes-a-year wire galvanizing plant and melt shop, and shortly in 2012 by a plastic pipes plant under the Roofings Polypipes subsidiary also at Lubowa. In the third expansion…

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