Uganda

EACOP's last line pipe landed on 10 January 2026. Where Uganda's API 5L demand sits now: in-field lines, a 211 km products pipeline, and O&M stock.

NWSC tenders chlorine internationally and runs EUR 480M of Katosi works. Where chlorination and dosing system suppliers enter Uganda's water build-out.

EACOP's four export tanks are built and UNOC holds $2bn in financing for new fuel terminals. Where Uganda's tank fabrication RFQs sit now.

Uganda's nine licensed refineries sit behind $5.21B in annual gold exports. Who buys melting furnaces, electrolytic cells, and assay kit.

Devki's $500m, 1 Mtpa Tororo plant is Uganda's first blast furnace. Duty is zero and VAT deferrable; the hard part is out-of-gauge freight from Mombasa.

Uganda's Kilembe revival holds 6.5M tonnes at 1.77% copper. Border charges, freight to Kasese, and the flowsheet caveat SX-EW suppliers should check.

EACOP is in pre-commissioning and Tilenga's control rooms are going up. The import duties, NSD gate, and corridor logistics for SCADA suppliers.

Uganda's melt shops buy grid power at UGX 207.7 per kWh, cheap enough to melt scrap profitably. Who supplies the furnaces and how to spec one.

No injectable filling line is built in Uganda. Where used and modular sterile lines come from, what an 11,500 m2 BFS incumbent means, and landed cost.

NWSC plans to stretch its mains from 23,142 km to 25,563 km by 2029. Where big-bore PE100 is actually sold in Uganda: factory gate, import, duty math.

QCIL's second Luzira plant will lift output from 1.4 to 2.4 billion tablets, and its cleanroom air package is being scoped now. Who buys HVAC in Uganda.

Uganda imports 80-90% of its steel while Devki builds a 1 Mtpa plant at Tororo. Who buys rolling mills, which OEMs quote, and how the deals get paid.

Uganda's biggest tablet maker is doubling capacity to 2.4 billion a year. Who buys presses and blister machines in Kampala and how deals get paid.

Tilenga had drilled 236 of 420 planned wells by July 2026 and keeps drilling for years. Who buys drilling equipment in Uganda and how suppliers get in.

A three-plant converter group, a 30-micron floor from NEMA and UNBS, and UGX 207.7/kWh industrial power. Planning a film extrusion line in Uganda.

Roofings started up a Danieli galvanizing line in 2025, yet Uganda imports $500m of steel a year. Scoping, financing, and landing a coating line project.

Sugar mills, UHT dairies and breweries drive Uganda's boiler demand. Kakira alone runs 52 MW of bagasse steam plant. Buyers, rules, duties, financing.

A Luwero distillery paid a UGX 75m fine over untreated effluent in 2026. Who buys industrial wastewater treatment plants in Uganda and how to spec one.

Orom-Cross cleared its DFS in Dec 2025: $1.09B NPV on a $40M phase one. Who buys flotation circuits in Uganda, what the ores demand, how deals get paid.

Coca-Cola's USD 27M Namanve line runs 67,000 bottles per hour. Who buys PET blow molding machines in Uganda, which class fits, and how deals get paid.

EACOP's two Ugandan pump stations are in pre-commissioning. Where pumping demand now sits: spares, O&M, water utilities, and a 211 km products line.

Uganda's UF/RO buyers are industrial: a $36m pharma expansion, Namanve bottlers, boiler feed. What a membrane plant project takes from spec to startup.

Tilenga and Kingfisher need trees for about 450 wells; 236 are drilled. Where Uganda's wellhead and Christmas tree demand sits now and who buys it.

Uganda imported 57,292 tonnes of wire rod worth $34m in 2024, and no incumbent rolls it at scale. Where used stands and compact mill lines fit the gap.

Uganda exported $5.21B of gold in the year to Oct 2025. Nine refineries, a new 5,000 t/d mine, and a national lab drive assay equipment demand.

Uganda's dairy investment case lists $507M in new processing plants, and every line needs CIP behind it. The buyers, suppliers, and import mechanics.

Wagagai's 5,000 t/d CIL plant went live in Aug 2025 with $100M of its $250M build still to come. Who buys gold leach kit in Uganda and how to reach them.

Zero duty, deferrable 18% VAT, Mombasa freight: the import path for cheese and yogurt fermentation tanks into Uganda's $285M dairy export sector.

A new 500 kW industrial diesel genset budgets at USD 120,000 to 180,000 ex-works. Indicative Uganda genset costs, install add-ons, duties, and buyers.

Milk powder is 54.2% of Uganda's $285.4M dairy exports. The processors adding drying capacity, how they pay, and where spray dryer RFQs come from.

Karuma-Tororo alone needs 346 km of 400kV towers. Where Uganda's utilities and EPCs source fabricated tower steel, and whether used stock ever qualifies.

Uganda's milk output hit 5.4 billion litres and its processors just opened Algeria. How to scope, finance, and land an aseptic carton filling line.

UEDCL is refurbishing 12 substations and building 6 new ones. The $50m Amari project re-equips four more. Who buys HV switchgear in Uganda, and how.

UEDCL replaced 338 transformers in 2025 and has 518 more planned. Which classes are ringfenced for local plants, and where foreign OEMs still win.

UHT milk carries 33.1% of Uganda's dairy export value. How a greenfield UHT plant gets specified, financed, and landed in a landlocked market.

Moroto's clinker line went live in April 2026 and Ugandan grid power costs UGX 207.7 per kWh. Where used and modular VRMs fit the grinding build-out.

Uganda reached roughly 9 Mt/yr of cement capacity in 2026 and now ships bagged product to three neighbours. New, used, and modular line options compared.

Moroto's 6,000 t/day clinker line was commissioned in April 2026. Who supplies grinding mills into Uganda now, and how the buying has changed.

Uganda shipped 8.6 million bags of coffee worth $2.3B in the year to May 2026, 95% of it green. Where processing equipment RFQs surface and who buys.

Uganda earned US$2.24B from coffee in the year to August 2025. What an instant coffee plant costs, from verified reference builds to LC and VAT mechanics.

Uganda's EUR 2.7B SGR, EACOP civils and the new Moroto quarry drive crusher demand. Buyer map, 0% duty, VAT deferment, LC banks and tender entry points.

Yaobai's $300M Moroto plant is Uganda's live kiln-line price anchor. How to budget a rotary kiln and preheater package, from EPC scope to VAT deferment.

Coffee earned Uganda $2.24B in the year to August 2025, and a Shs310B tea rescue is coming. Where agro-processing equipment RFQs surface and who pays.

Devki's $500M Tororo steel mill and a $300M Moroto clinker plant anchor Uganda's building-materials capex. Who buys equipment and how deals close.

Uganda shipped 8.8M bags worth $2.4B in the year to April 2026. How to plan, spec, finance, and commission a coffee colour sorter for export grades.

Uganda imports 60-70% of its edible oil while $144.55M in oilseed funding lands upcountry. Plant scopes, named buyers, and payment routes.

UEDCL has an ERA-approved UGX 267.5bn plan: 518 transformers, 18 substations. Who buys power equipment in Uganda and how the RFQs get won.

Uganda's dairy exports hit $285.4M in 2024 on 5.4B litres of milk. The processors, payment mechanics, and tenders behind its equipment RFQs.

Uganda imported over USD 250M of grain in 2024 and its grains market is headed for USD 3.35B by 2031. A step-by-step guide to a new milling line.

MTN and Airtel Uganda spent close to UGX 1.1 trillion on network capex in 2025. Where ICT and data-centre suppliers find Ugandan RFQs.

UIA licensed 449 projects worth $3.14B in FY2024/25. Who buys packaging, moulding and filling lines in Uganda, how they pay, where RFQs surface.

Uganda's gold exports hit $5.21B in the year to Oct 2025. Who buys CIL plants, refinery lines, copper SX-EW kit, and flotation circuits in Uganda.

UNOC's $2bn Vitol facility funds fuel storage and pipelines while the 60,000 bpd Kabaale refinery sits pre-FID. A supplier map of Uganda downstream.

EACOP has 1,536 km of pipe welded and its Ugandan pump stations in final erection. Where midstream RFQs for line pipe, tanks, and pumps now sit.

Tilenga is 74% built with 234 wells drilled and EACOP passed 90%. Where Uganda's upstream equipment RFQs sit now and how foreign suppliers reach them.

A $27M PET line at Namanve, a three-plant flexible packaging group, and e-GP tenders from July 2026. Uganda's packaging machinery buyers, mapped.

Uganda imports 90% of its medicines and charges a 12% verification fee on 37 locally made lines. Where the pharma equipment RFQs sit and who signs.

Uganda imports about $500m of steel a year while Devki builds a 1 Mtpa blast-furnace plant at Tororo. Who buys the equipment and how deals get paid.

Kakira alone crushes over 2 million tonnes of cane a year. Where Uganda's sugar mills order rollers and reshelling, and how a greenfield project buys.

A Shs310B rescue is headed for Uganda's tea factories. What the rehabilitation buys, which CTC machines, and how the Mombasa price gap sets the spec.

Nytil plans a $40m, 30,000-spindle mill and Mbale's park added garment lines in 2025. Who buys textile machinery in Uganda and how the deals get paid.

One national utility, EUR 480M of French-backed Katosi financing, and mandatory e-GP bidding from July 2026. How suppliers win Ugandan water RFQs.

Kenya's excise on imported sugar jumped to KSh 40,000 a tonne in July 2026. Why that sends Ugandan mills shopping for vacuum pans and evaporators.

GDP USD 53.91B, first oil targeted late 2026, EACOP 1,443 km in advanced build. How foreign suppliers win Ugandan RFQs via PPDA and PAU's NSD.

Tilenga 190k bpd, Kingfisher 40k bpd, EACOP 1,443 km: how foreign upstream vendors win Uganda's Albertine Graben procurement pipeline through 2030.