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 — and the one that punishes pretenders.
- Nigeria's serviceable Chinese-machinery import market was US$156.8M in 2024 — the largest of the six 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 — consistent with a maximum lending rate of 33.16%. 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: roughly half of Nigeria's ~13,000MW installed generation never reaches users, and manufacturers' diesel spend runs to ₦1.83 trillion. 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.
| 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 →
What we don't do in Nigeria — said plainly: we don't provide financing, and we don't solve your power supply. Nigeria's binding constraints are a 33.16% maximum lending rate and a grid that delivers roughly half of installed capacity — no equipment vendor fixes either. What we do: specify the line for the power you actually have, stage capital honestly, and keep the line running once it's yours. We also don't supply mining equipment.
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.
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.