Production lines for Tanzanian manufacturers — supplied, installed, and supported.
CISH delivers complete production lines to Tanzanian manufacturers — sunflower oil pressing and refining, grain milling, and building-materials forming — sourced from China, installed and commissioned in Tanzania, and kept running with spare parts on our own China–Africa supply channel.
The most active manufacturing market we serve.
- 92 manufacturing projects were registered in Q1 2026 worth US$535.7M — an average of roughly US$5.8M each, squarely in the small-to-mid line class we deliver. China is Tanzania's largest source of foreign direct investment. Tanzania Investment Centre, Q1 2026
- Chinese food & beverage machinery imports grew 34.9% in 2024 — and grain-milling equipment (HS 8437) grew 68.4% to US$12.5M, the strongest milling signal in any market we serve. UN Comtrade, 2024 2024 data
- Vessel discharge time at Dar es Salaam has been cut from around 300 hours to under 28 — as stated by the terminal operator following the port concession. Terminal operator statement, 2025 — operator-stated figure
- Honest counterweight: total registered investment fell 44.7% year-on-year in Q1 2026, and domestic investment fell 52.5%. Capex decisions are taking longer than in 2024 — we plan schedules and validity periods accordingly. Tanzania Investment Centre, Q1 2026
Edible oil is a national priority. Tanzania is Africa's second-largest sunflower producer — sunflower is about 35% of national oilseed output — and edible oil is a named import-substitution target in the 2026/27 budget, with a cash-crop output target of +32.4% to 2.118M tonnes.
Where Tanzanian demand actually is.
1 · Sunflower oil — pressing and refining
Cleaning, dehulling, pressing — and the refining train: degumming, neutralising, bleaching, deodorising. Refining is where know-how is genuinely scarce in Tanzania, and where we add the most value: we commission to output and train your team on the full process.
Agricultural processing →2 · Grain milling
Maize and wheat milling lines in the 30–240 tpd class. Milling equipment imports grew 68.4% in 2024 2024 · UN Comtrade — the strongest signal of the six markets we serve.
Milling lines →3 · Building-materials forming
Block, brick, and dry-mix forming plants — Tanzania's US$14.8M forming market is the largest of our six, backed by the national housing programme and NHC pipeline. Forming plant only: we do not supply crushing or screening.
Building materials →Also active in Tanzania: filling & packaging and plastics processing (US$31.3M of 2024 imports) — see plastics & packaging.
How parts and people reach your floor.
Parts: your part joins our consolidated China–Africa channel — the same movements that carry our continuous equipment trade — shipping into Dar es Salaam, with clearance handled as routine, not as a first-time puzzle. Wear-part kits are specified and priced when you buy the line; common wear items are buffer-stocked in Johannesburg. How the channel works →
People: installation and commissioning are delivered by CISH engineers mobilised from Johannesburg, working with local crews. Day-to-day support runs through our engineers and appointed local agents as the Tanzanian network grows — we describe what exists today honestly, and it grows with every line we hand over.
Remote first: most stoppages are diagnosed remotely against your line's documentation, so the right part and the right person travel once, not twice.
| Budget bands — Tanzania | |
|---|---|
| Entry food / packaging line (new) | US$150k–400k equipment |
| Mid oilseed / milling line (new) | US$400k–900k equipment |
| Building-materials forming (new) | US$700k–1.5M equipment |
| Upgrade / recovery of existing line | US$60k–250k |
| Landed & installed factor | ×1.25–1.45 on equipment price |
Equipment is typically only 35–55% of total project cost. Why →
Seven stages, Dar es Salaam specifics included.
Consult
Free 30-min call.
Feasibility
Capacity, layout, budget band for your site.
Design
Specification sized to your crop and market.
Source & Build
Factories we buy from weekly; tested before shipping.
Install
Via Dar es Salaam; duty confirmed at quote, in writing.
Commission
Run to agreed output on your product.
Maintain
Training, wear-part kit, parts on the channel.
What we don't do in Tanzania — said plainly: we don't supply mining equipment of any kind. We don't provide financing. We don't pre-quote tariff rates — Tanzanian tariff treatment changed in early 2026, so duty is confirmed line-by-line at quotation. And we won't tell you power is a solved problem: we specify each line for the power that actually reaches your site, standby included where it should be.
Asked by Tanzanian manufacturers.
Pressing-only lines typically sit in the US$150k–400k equipment band; adding the refining train (degumming, neutralising, bleaching, deodorising) moves most projects into US$400k–900k. Landed and installed, budget ×1.25–1.45 on equipment. A free feasibility call turns that into a band for your throughput.
On our own consolidated China–Africa channel into Dar es Salaam, then to site. Wear-part kits are specified at purchase and common items buffer-stocked in Johannesburg. Details →
Yes — commissioning to an agreed output on your crop, with your operators trained during run-up, is the core of the offer. Refining know-how is exactly where Tanzanian oil projects stall, and exactly what we bring.
We confirm current tariff treatment line-by-line at quotation and state the duty assumptions in writing. Tariff policy on locally-producible goods changed in early 2026; blanket rates found online are unreliable.
No — no crushing, screening, milling or mine-site machinery. Manufacturing lines only.
No. We publish honest budget bands and support your bank's due diligence with a written feasibility — but the funding is between you and your bank.
Planning a line in Tanzania?
Tell us the product and the volume. A CISH engineer replies within two working days with a feasibility view.