The Managing Director (MD) of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Madam Doris Adjei, has embarked on a mission to Kenya to assess progress and expand the company’s integrated waste management model in Nairobi and Mombasa.
The visit comes just over a month after Zoomlion Kenya officially launched operations in Nairobi on March 27, 2026, under the city’s new waste management programme.
In that period, the company says it has evacuated more than 55,000 tonnes of waste from across the capital: over four times the previous evacuation capacity.
A major focus has been clearing Nairobi’s long-standing sanitation challenges.
The city previously had about 109 illegal dumpsites, which posed serious health and environmental risks.
Zoomlion has begun a large-scale clearance exercise, transporting accumulated waste to the Dandora Dumpsite.
During her tour, Madam Adjei visited Dandora, met project leads and Nairobi County officials, and inspected ongoing engineering works at the facility.
Zoomlion is upgrading internal access roads, reorganizing tipping operations, and introducing 24-hour systems to improve traffic flow and efficiency at the decades-old dumpsite.
The company is also rolling out infrastructure to support a modern secondary collection system across Nairobi.
Plans include four zonal transfer stations, each designed to handle between 800 and 1,200 tonnes of waste daily to improve consolidation and transportation.
In a further expansion, Zoomlion is preparing a 3,600-tonne-per-day waste processing and resource recovery facility at Ruai.
Management says the plant, expected to be commissioned by the end of November 2026, will focus on recycling, composting, and other recovery activities to reduce reliance on landfills and promote circular economy practices.
Madam Adjei said the programme will be inclusive, with deliberate engagement of informal waste workers, community groups, and existing operators to ensure sustainable delivery and shared economic benefits.
Zoomlion said the Kenya intervention forms part of its broader African strategy to advance environmental sustainability, strengthen regional operations, and facilitate knowledge exchange across the continent.
