Production lines for Mozambican manufacturers — installed and supported locally.
CISH delivers complete production lines to Mozambican manufacturers — food & beverage, building-materials forming, and plastics — supplied from China, installed and commissioned to an agreed output, and kept running with spare parts on our own China–Africa logistics network.
A real market — for buyers who structure payment well.
- Food & beverage is 42% of the Mozambican Chinese-machinery imports we serve (US$10.1M in 2024) — the second-highest share of our six markets. UN Comtrade, 2024 2024 data
- Building-materials forming (US$5.1M) grew 23.7% in 2024 — Mozambique is the only one of our six markets where this category is genuinely growing. UN Comtrade, 2024 2024 data
- Foreign-exchange access is a real constraint: Fitch affirmed the sovereign 'CC' rating on 2026-07-24 citing significant difficulty for importers sourcing FX, and the central bank halved the annual offshore card limit to MZN 3M in July 2026. That is why our payment terms are stated on day one. Fitch Ratings, 2026-07-24; Banco de Moçambique, July 2026
- Maputo is well served overland from Johannesburg. Beira and Nacala are 1,600–2,500 km away — we plan those projects individually, with real lead times, never on a single national promise. CISH operations
Payment terms, up front: offshore USD or letter of credit. We'd rather say it in the first sentence than discover it in week six. Buyers who can pay this way move fast with us.
Where Mozambican demand actually is.
1 · Food & beverage
Filling & packaging, bottling, bakery and processing — the country's largest category (US$10.1M in 2024 UN Comtrade), commissioned to an agreed output with your team trained, in Portuguese.
Food & beverage →2 · Building-materials forming
Block, brick and dry-mix plants — the only genuinely growing category (+23.7% in 2024). Forming plant only: no crushing or screening.
Building materials →3 · Plastics & packaging
Injection, blow moulding and extrusion (US$8.7M in 2024) — specified for the power and site conditions you actually have.
Plastics & packaging →How parts and people reach your plant.
Parts: your part travels on our China–Africa channel to Johannesburg — where common wear items are buffer-stocked — then overland to Maputo. Wear-part kits are specified and priced at line purchase. How the channel works →
People: installation and commissioning by CISH engineers mobilised from Johannesburg with local crews; ongoing support through our engineers and appointed local agents as the Mozambican network grows — described honestly as it stands today.
Documentation and training in Portuguese: run and maintenance procedures delivered in Portuguese, with your team trained during commissioning.
| Budget bands — Mozambique | |
|---|---|
| Entry food / packaging line (new) | US$150k–400k equipment |
| Mid line (new) | US$400k–900k equipment |
| Solution built with used equipment | typically 40–60% of new equivalent |
| Upgrade / recovery of existing line | US$60k–250k |
| Landed & installed factor (Maputo) | ×1.25–1.45 on equipment price |
Equipment is typically only 35–55% of total project cost. Why →
What we don't do in Mozambique — said plainly: no government or state-owned enterprise projects. No mining equipment. No financing. And no payment structures that depend on uncertain FX access — offshore USD or LC, agreed at the start.
Planning a line in Mozambique?
Tell us the product and the volume — in Portuguese or English. A CISH engineer replies within two working days.