Kenya

Kenya mills 2.5M tonnes of feed against 4M tonnes of capacity, and three new plants are under way. Where extrusion lines sell: new, used, and modular.

Kenya makes 694 medicine formulations and almost no active ingredients. A Sh27.8bn Konza park wants to change that. What reactor buyers specify.

Kenyan pharma plants run at under 50% of capacity and face GS1 unit-level serialisation from January 2027. What that changes in a blister line bid.

Kenya's data centre market hits USD 266M in 2025, and Nairobi's 1,795 m altitude changes every cooling quote. Buying used and modular cooling, honestly.

Kenya imported 875,000 tonnes of palm oil in 2024 and refines most of it at home. Where the refining-plant RFQs sit, and who signs them.

Shanta Gold's 915,000 tpa West Kenya plant anchors a US$170-208M build. Who supplies gold CIL circuits into Kenya and how the orders get paid.

Kenya's mills run at 36% of 4.2Mt installed capacity while steel imports hit 1.66Mt in 2025. What importing a hot rolling mill actually takes.

Kenya imported $4.66M of blow moulding machinery in 2024. The levies, KEBS certificate, Mombasa route and payment terms behind a Kenyan PET line.

Kenya's flexible packaging market is USD 2.24B in 2026, but gravure is held back by cylinder costs. What landing a press in Mombasa actually takes.

Kenya was the world's fourth rutile producer in 2024. Importing a mineral separation plant costs 4.5% on CIF before 16% VAT. Here is the route.

Kenya has almost no AAC capacity while state housing spend rose to KSh 117bn. How to size, specify and import an autoclaved aerated concrete plant.

Kenya's tea industry earned KSh 215 billion in 2024, and feed, milling, and cashew lines are adding capacity. Where agro-processing RFQs surface.

Globeleq's $117M binary plant hits the Kenyan grid in 2026 and GDC is tendering 70-100 MW at Paka. Who buys binary cycle equipment, and how.

Kenya's cement demand rose 20% to 9.34Mt in 2025, and a $250M clinker plant is in build. Who buys building-materials plant in Kenya, and how deals close.

Kenya shells 13,000 tonnes of cashew against 45,000 tonnes of installed capacity. Who buys processing equipment, what it costs, how deals get paid.

Imported tiles into Kenya carry 35% excise; local plants target 30M m2 a year. How to spec, budget, and buy a ceramic tile kiln line in Kenya.

Kenanie's KSh 5bn leather park has 36 investors queuing for fit-out space. How to spec, shortlist, finance, and import chrome tanning drums into Kenya.

Kenya used 10.3Mt of cement in 2025, and $595M of clinker plant has been ordered or commissioned since 2024. Who supplies the lines and what they cost.

Kenya's formal milk intake hit 1.014 billion litres in 2025. The licence, equipment scope, and payment steps for a dairy processing plant project.

Kenya imported 1,771 tonnes of denim fabric in 2024 and wove almost none of it. What a denim line contains, who buys it, and how the deal is paid.

KenGen is drilling 42 wells under a $1.8B geothermal program and KETRACO has a KSh 65B grid pipeline. Who buys energy equipment in Kenya, and how.

Kenya imported $17.5M of float glass in 2024, 70% from one Tanzanian plant. Scope, budget, technology suppliers and financing for a domestic line.

Kenya's food processing sector hit $9 billion in 2024. The processors, tenders, and payment mechanics behind its dairy, edible oil, and milling RFQs.

Kenya makes around 8 million pairs of shoes a year against a 36 million target for 2027. What a footwear line needs, who buys, and what it lands at.

A Kenyan cut-make-pack plant spends $3M to $6M on 2,000-3,000 sewing machines. Why line balancing, not machine price, decides the payback.

Olkaria VII needs an 80.3 MW turbine island by June 2027, with a USD 1.8B expansion behind it. How geothermal turbine procurement works in Kenya.

Kenya's data centre market hit USD 266M in 2025, with 100,000 km of public fibre in build. Who buys ICT infrastructure in Kenya and how suppliers win.

Kenya imported USD 9.9M of injection moulding machines in 2024. How to pick tonnage, drive type and tooling, and what really lands on the invoice.

Kenanie Leather Park is a KSh 5 billion state build with 36 investors queuing for space. Where Kenya's leather and footwear equipment RFQs land next.

Kenanie's two leather goods warehouses were built at KSh 499 million. Here is what cutting equipment Kenyan bag and shoe makers specify, and who pays.

Chandaria's KES 5B tissue plant and 100+ Tatu City SEZ factories anchor Kenya's light-manufacturing capex. Who buys, how they pay, where RFQs surface.

Kenya's mining output grew 14.9% to KSh 141.7B in 2025. Where gold, soda ash, and mineral-sands equipment RFQs come from and how they get paid.

Kenya's flexible packaging market hits USD 2.24B in 2026. The converters, printers, and recyclers buying machinery, and how their deals get paid.

Kenya's medicine import bill hit Sh99.8bn in 2024 and only 220 of 1,096 essential formulations are made locally. Where the equipment RFQs sit.

iXAfrica's first Nairobi hall alone is 780 racks at 4.5 MW. The procurement sequence for rack systems on a Kenyan data centre build, step by step.

Kenya's green gram exports more than doubled to 13,241 tonnes in late 2025. How to plan, permit, and procure a greenfield pulses processing plant.

KenGen's $1.8B Olkaria programme names reinjection wells in a 42-well scope. What the systems include, who buys them in Kenya, and how to quote.

Iron and steel imports into Kenya rose 41% in Q3 2025. Where the rebar, fabrication, and building-systems RFQs sit, and who issues them.

Kenya's AGOA apparel exports hit KSh 60.6B in 2024 and EPZ capex rose 21% to KSh 38.3B. Who buys textile machinery in Kenya and how the deals get paid.

Kenya's formal milk intake hit 1.014 billion litres in 2025. How a UHT sterilisation and aseptic filling project gets specified, licensed and paid for.

Kenya ground 9.49Mt of cement in the first 11 months of 2025. How to spec, finance, and land a vertical roller mill for a Kenyan grinding plant.

Kenya's water sector carries a $3.5B financing gap and a $458M flagship program. Who buys treatment plants, pumps, and meters, and how RFQs get paid.

Kenya's vaccine requirement runs near KSh 8 billion a year, all imported. What a used or modular pharmaceutical freeze dryer is actually worth.

Kenya imported about $36M of milk powder in 2023, then suspended powder imports in 2025. Who buys evaporators and spray dryers now, and how they procure.

Kenya has two live ore comminution scopes: a 915,000 tpa gold plant and a Sh3.61bn trona-crushing upgrade. Specs, vendors, and landed cost.

Kenya's manufacturing strategy prices a sterile injectable plant at Sh800m. Where vial, ampoule and liquid filling RFQs sit and who signs them.

Kenya generates 880,000 tonnes of plastic waste a year and recycles under 8%. What a recycling line really costs to land, install, licence and run.

Bamburi's $250M Kwale line runs a six-stage precalciner, with a KSh 40B Kitui plant behind it. Who supplies precalciners in Kenya and how orders close.

Kenya consumed 10.28 million tonnes of cement in 2025. What a rebar production line really costs a mill in spec, feedstock and supplier choice.

Kenya's cement output hit 9.49Mt in 2025 and a $250M clinker line is in build. Who supplies rotary kiln systems to Kenyan plants, and how the deals close.

Kenya's flagship device plant built 700,000 units against 3 million of capacity. What a first SMT line here actually needs, and who is buying one.

Kenya's only soda ash producer is tripling Lake Magadi output from 300,000 to 1m tonnes. Here's the equipment scope and who supplies each package.

Kenya imported $287M of man-made filament and staple fibre in 2024. What transfers well on a used melt-spinning line, and what quietly does not.

Kenanie's shared tannery effluent plant carries a KSh 2.2 billion price tag. How to budget an effluent treatment package for a Kenyan tannery.

Kenya made 550.37 million kg of tea in 2025, and orthodox sells at USD 3.20 a kg against 2.15 for CTC. What used and modular lines are worth buying.

KenInvest budgets $8M for the dyeing house inside a 10,000-tonne Kenyan mill. Why liquor ratio, not sticker price, decides what it really costs.

Kenya's grid averaged 113 outage hours per customer in FY2025. How UPS and switchgear suppliers get onto parastatal and data centre bid lists.

Kenya's newest urban water programme adds 33,600 m3/day across 21 towns. What plant equipment RFQs cover, who issues them, and how to reach the buyers.

Kenyan mills pay KSh 13.74 per kWh before fuel and forex charges. That number, not list price, decides air-jet versus rapier in your loom quote.

KenGen is drilling 42 wells under a $1.8B programme and GDC runs seven rigs rated to 7 km. Who buys drilling rigs in Kenya, and how to sell to them.

Alpharama reports over 300% value addition on the same hide. Which used retanning and finishing machines a Kenyan tannery should buy, and which are traps.

Kenya's GDP hit $120.3B in 2024, FX has been a clean float since 1993, and tenders flow through tenders.go.ke. How foreign suppliers win Kenyan RFQs.

Devki Steel's billion-dollar Athi River mill anchors Kenya's metal sector. How foreign equipment vendors win EAF, rolling, coating, and fabrication RFQs.