Production lines for Nigerian manufacturers — supplied, installed, supported.
CISH delivers plastics and food & beverage lines to Nigerian manufacturers — supplied from China through Lagos, commissioned to rated output, and supported where it matters most in Nigeria: the part in your hands in days, and someone who has run this whole line before.
The biggest market of our six core markets — and the one that punishes pretenders.
- Nigeria's serviceable Chinese-machinery import market was US$156.8M in 2024 — the largest of the six core markets we serve — led by plastics processing at US$86.3M, the single largest category anywhere in our footprint. UN Comtrade, 2024 2024 data
- Food & beverage machinery followed at US$61.0M, though it contracted 8.3% in 2024 — against a maximum lending rate that stood at 33.16% in mid-2026 (about 30.3% in December 2024). Capital is expensive here; our budget bands and staging respect that. UN Comtrade, 2024; CBN maximum lending rate 2024 data
- Power is the binding constraint, not skills: NERC reports only about 5.4 GW of available grid capacity for a country of more than 200 million people, and manufacturers run on diesel to fill the gap. We specify lines for the power you actually have. Sector reporting, 2024–2025
- Maintenance labour is abundant and capable — injection and blow-moulding maintenance engineers are widely available. What Nigeria lacks isn't hands. It's the part, in the country, this week — and whole-line commissioning experience. Those are the two things we sell. Nigerian jobs-market observation, 2025
Your fitter can fix a machine. Knowing which part to hold, and getting it here in a week, is a different job. That's the job we do — through a China–Africa channel we run for our own trade, every week.
Plastics first. It isn't close.
1 · Plastics processing
Injection, blow moulding and extrusion — Nigeria's US$86.3M plastics machinery market 2024 · UN Comtrade is the largest single category across all six countries we serve. Lines commissioned to rate, wear parts specified from day one.
Plastics & packaging →2 · Food & beverage
Filling & packaging, beverage and food processing lines (US$61.0M in 2024) — staged and sized honestly for a market where capital costs 33% a year.
Food & beverage →3 · Parts & recovery for existing lines
The fastest way to meet us: a stopped line, a missing part, a channel that already moves parts out of China weekly. Also line recovery for equipment running below rate.
Machine down? →How parts and people reach your floor.
Parts: your part joins our consolidated China–Africa channel into Lagos, cleared through the same routine paperwork our channel handles constantly. Wear-part kits are specified and priced at line purchase; common items buffer-stocked in Johannesburg. How the channel works →
People: commissioning and major work are led by CISH engineers, with local crews and clearing arrangements put in place per project — sized to your job, not a one-size promise. Day-to-day maintenance stays with your own team: Nigerian maintenance labour is good, and we'd rather train it than replace it. Training →
Know-how: what we bring that direct import can't: we've commissioned the whole line before — and we put the output commitment in writing.
Delivered work: this support model is proven on real lines — a hybrid bottling line and a plastics line OEE retrofit among them, commissioned from our Johannesburg base. Case studies with numbers →
| Budget bands — Nigeria | |
|---|---|
| Entry plastics / packaging line (new) | US$150k–400k equipment |
| Mid plastics / food line (new) | US$400k–900k equipment |
| Upgrade / recovery of existing line | US$60k–250k |
| Annual maintenance & spares contract | 3–8% of line value p.a. |
| Landed & installed factor (Lagos) | ×1.25–1.45 on equipment price |
Equipment is typically only 35–55% of total project cost. Why →
How we work with Nigeria’s constraints: we specify the line for the power you actually have, stage capital honestly, and keep the line running once it is yours. Lending rates and grid availability are planning inputs on every Nigerian project, not footnotes.
What a pure water or plastics line costs in Nigeria.
Two honest tiers exist in Nigeria's water business, and they are different industries. Single sachet fillers — the "pure water machine" of the classifieds — trade locally from a few hundred dollars, with the nylon, the borehole and the hustle around them; that market is well served by local dealers and it is not what we sell. The tier CISH delivers starts where treatment, automation and bottled-water co-production enter: an entry bottling line at 2,000–4,000 bph runs US$150–400k in equipment, a mid-speed plant US$400–900k — and for the sachet-to-bottle upgrade path, that first band is where a pure water business becomes a table water brand.
Plastics is Nigeria's biggest machinery category of our six core markets, and the bands are set by machine class, not geography: an injection moulding machine in the 150–300 t packaging workhorse band runs US$30–75k; a washing and recycling line at 300–1,000 kg/h runs US$120–350k — the tier where bought-in waste becomes feedstock margin.
Apply ×1.25–1.45 landed-and-installed through Lagos, and read the Nigeria import guide before you budget: the duty-and-levy stack and the B'Odogwu clearance transition are facts to schedule, not surprises. All figures USD — machinery is priced in dollars, and naira budgeting should start from that.
Who trains your team, and who keeps the line running.
Operator and maintenance training is included in every line we hand over, not sold back afterwards. It covers the operators who run the line and the fitters who keep it running, and it leaves behind written procedures in plain English with photographs of your line — not a translated generic manual. Refresher and new-hire visits are part of the offer, so the knowledge stays in your business when people move on.
Long-term maintenance and support comes in three tiers: reactive attendance when something breaks; scheduled preventive visits on a fixed calendar with wear parts replaced before they fail and a written condition report after each one; or full-service, which adds priority attendance, remote diagnostics and annual training refreshers. An annual maintenance and spares contract typically runs 3–8% of line value per year, quoted in writing with the line rather than discovered afterwards.
On a Nigerian plastics or pure-water line the maintenance plan has to be written around the power you actually have: every changeover between grid and generator is a thermal and electrical event for the line, and the wear it causes belongs on the service calendar, not in a breakdown call.
Asked by Nigerian manufacturers.
Yes — this is the most common way Nigerian manufacturers start with us. WhatsApp the machine plate and a photo of the part; we source through our own China channel. No history with CISH required. Start here →
No. Honest budget bands, written feasibility for your bank — but the funding is yours to arrange. Said up front on purpose.
No — and nobody selling lines honestly can. We specify each line for your site's real power, generator integration included, so the committed output is achievable.
You can — many do, and then meet us when the line stops. What direct import doesn't include: whole-line specification, commissioning to rate, training, documentation, and parts in days instead of months. That gap is the price difference.
Entry setups US$150k–400k equipment; mid lines US$400k–900k; ×1.25–1.45 landed and installed through Lagos.
Scenarios in Nigeria: which row are you?
The situations we are asked about most in Nigeria, with the realistic tier, the 2026 USD band and the first question that decides the project. The sixteen-country view is at production lines in Africa by country and line.
| Scenario | Line and first tier | The first question we ask | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| A pure-water or sachet business that runs every day | Bottling tier, 2,000–4,000 bph · US$150–400k | Source water analysis and the registration route | Guide |
| A first plastics shop | Injection 150–300 t · US$30–75k plus moulds | Which part, and who pays for the mould? | Guide |
| PET or film recycling | Wash line 300–1,000 kg/h · US$120–350k | Do you have bale supply contracts? | Guide |
| Palm oil at plant scale | 1–5 t/h plant · US$100–390k | Fruit-bunch supply radius | Guide |
| A stopped line | Recovery · US$60–250k | Do drawings and controls access exist? | Guide |
Bands are the same ones published on this page and in the sizing guides; machinery is priced in US dollars and the local-currency cost moves with the exchange rate.
Primary sources
Running plastics or food lines in Nigeria?
Whether it's a stopped machine or a new line, start with a WhatsApp message. An engineer replies.