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BUA Cement, a subsidiary of BUA Group, yesterday, July 23, held a one-day workshop to sensitize block and concrete makers on the importance of using the right mix of cement with other components to guarantee that only the highest standard of block and concrete is produced.

The one-day workshop tagged, “Optimizing Cement Usage to Achieve Better Quality and Yield of Blocks” was organized in collaboration with the Modern Skills Training Centre of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) in Abuja.

Speaking at the event, the General Manager – Sales and Marketing, BUA (Obu) Cement, Nasiru Ladan, thanked the stakeholders for their patronage of BUA Cement and assured the continuous production of high quality cement which will help achieve better quality of product. “We promise to continue producing high quality cement so that you can use it to also produce your own product and I assure you whatever you use BUA Cement to produce, it will be of the best quality,” he said.

Ladan, also, explained that the workshop was part of the company’s strategy to address poor mix of quality cement to reduce the incidence of collapsed buildings across the country.

“If the quality of the cement is good and the other materials you are using are not in the right proportion, you are likely to end up with a product that is substandard. So the importance of this meeting is for us to rub minds and exchange ideas on how to achieve the best quality of whatever product we are producing,” Ladan explained. “Most incidence of collapse building has been attributed to either the use of poor quality product or no adherence to quality standard towards the use of the right mix. So the idea of having this workshop is to discuss and tell the participants the best way to prevent the poor quality blocks and the insistent cases of building collapse.”

The Training Manager, Modern Skills Training Centre of ITF, Ayodele Shodunke, urged the block makers to use the knowledge acquired in the training to change the narrative of poor quality blocks. She stated that ITF’s doors are open for the block-makers for training, re-training and modern skill acquisition in building material at the Centre at all times.

Speaking, also, the Chairman of the Abuja Concrete Manufacturers of Nigeria, Comrade Uzor George-Tiga commended BUA Cement for the life-changing programme and described it as an eye opener which would strengthen activities surrounding their businesses.

“This is solidarity to a very good brand, BUA Cement who has to train us on how best we can do our business better. To me that is how the direction of a particular company can be the direction of the people. We must commend them for that,” said Uzor. “We are happy going home; we are enriched with more knowledge on how to do our business. The knowledge we have gathered here will help us give out the best to the people and to the economy.”

The stakeholders, at the end of the event, were also presented with working equipment.