Top Companies From the Industry Sector in Mozambique
View the list of the top 10 companies from the industry sector in Mozambique.
Mozambique’s
Largest Companies from the Industry Sector
View the list of the top 10 companies from the industry sector in Mozambique.
The companies listed include players such as Mozal, Vale Mozambique, CDM (Cervejas de Moçambique), Sasol Petroleum Temane and Cimentos de Moçambique, among others.
| Rank | Company | Country | Sector | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mozambique | Aluminium Industry | Mozal is an aluminium smelter established in July 1998, which is located in Beluluane Industrial Park (Maputo). Backed by a US$2 billion investment, the smelter was the largest private investment in the country and the first large foreign direct investment in Mozambique. Mozal is the only aluminium smelter in the country and the second-largest aluminium smelter in Africa. It is the largest industrial employer in Mozambique and delivers a significant contribution to the Mozambican economy. | |
| 2 | Mozambique | Mining Industry | Present in Mozambique since 2004, Vale has the concession of one of the world’s largest coal reserves in Moatize, in the Tete Province, northwest of the country. The implementation of the operation of Moatize, which would become the first project carried out by Vale in Africa, started in 2008. Three years later, the complex was put into operation. Currently, the mines of Moatize have an operating capacity of 11 million tons of coal. Sales are directed to the main trans-ocean markets such as East Asia, the Americas, Europe and India. | |
| 3 | Mozambique | Beverage Industry | SABMiller entered the Mozambican market in 1995. CDM (Cervejas de Moçambique) is the sole brewer in Mozambique. It operates 3 breweries in Maputo, Beira and Nampula. Brands include 2M (the largest beer brand in Mozambique and one of the largest in SABMiller Africa), Laurentina, Manica, Castle Lite (the leading beer in the premium segment) and Impala. | |
| 4 | Mozambique | Oil and Gas Industry | Sasol Petroleum International, an energy and chemicals company, develops and manages oil and gas exploration and production in Mozambique, South Africa, Gabon and Nigeria. Through partnership with CMH (Companhia Moçambicana Hidrocarbonetos), a subsidiary company of Mozambique’s national oil and gas company, ENH (Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Moçambique), and the International Finance Corporation, SPT (Sasol Petroleum Temane) established a series of production wells in the Temane field. | |
| 5 | Mozambique | Cement Industry | Cimentos de Moçambique is part of InterCement, a Brazilian private equity company, which is the market leader in cement in Portugal, Argentina, Mozambique and Cape Verde. The company has 5 factories in Mozambique and produces 2,9 million tons of cement per year. | |
| 6 | Mozambique | Beverage Industry | Coca-Cola Sabco is a bottler of the Coca-Cola Company present in 7 countries, with 18 plants and over 9,000 employees. In Mozambique, Sabco commenced operations in Maputo in May 1994. It opened a new plant in Chimoio in 1997, as well as another bottling operation in Nampula in 2001. | |
| 7 | Mozambique | Oil and Gas Industry | CMH (Companhia Moçambicana de Hidrocarbonetos) was established in October 2000. On the same date, the Petroleum Production Agreement was signed between the Government of Mozambique and ENH (Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos) on one side, and SPT (Sasol Petroleum Temane) and CMH on the other. Through this agreement, SPT and CMH have been granted the rights to carry out the petroleum operations in the Pande and Temane gas fields. | |
| 8 | Mozambique | Cement Industry | Cimbetão (Cimpor Betão Moçambique) is a cement company founded in 1988 as part of InterCement, a Brazilian private equity company, which is the market leader in cement in Portugal, Argentina, Mozambique and Cape Verde. The company has 5 factories in Mozambique and produces 2,9 million tons of cement per year. | |
| 9 | Mozambique | Steel Industry | Ferpinta Moçambique is part of Grupo Ferpinta, a company acting in the tourism, agriculture and steel segments in Portugal, Spain, Angola and Mozambique. It mainly produces tubes, channels, plates, hot rolled steel merchand shapes, heavy plates and plumbing accessories. | |
| 10 | Mozambique | Plastics Industry | Topack Industria de Plásticos is a group of companies engaged in the processing of plastics in Portuguese-speaking countries. The first plastics industry of the group was founded in Mozambique in 1995. The group also has two more industrial units in Angola and is involved in joint ventures in Latin America and Europe. |