The high level of silt in Lake Magadi has significantly reduced the quality of soda ash produced in Kenya, threatening the country’s export position and forcing Tata Chemicals to pay buyers millions ...

Lake Magadi, which has been mined since 1911 for its naturally occurring soda ash, is now under threat due to massive soil erosion upstream in Narok and Suswa. Since 2005, the amount of silt that has ...

A change of guard at the Magadi Soda Company is in the offing following the departure of the firm’s managing director James Mathenge— six years after taking charge. Mr Mathenge’s departure comes at a ...

Celtel Kenya has signed a special agreement with Magadi Soda Company, which enables company employees to access services at reduced rates. The agreement allows Celtel to erect base stations in Magadi, ...

ABOUT 200 employees working in the Premium Ash Magadi plant will be laid off from October in a planned closure of the facility, Tata Chemicals Magadi Limited has said.The management said the ...

Nairobi — Magadi Soda Company has signed a medium term loan facility of Sh1.675 billion ($23.6 million) with two leading banks. Standard Charted Bank has arranged the loan, which is fully underwritten ...

• Tata Chemicals Magadi Ltd mines soda ash and has not paid land rates for years, the Auditor General said. • On Tuesday, the company hired by county took over Magadi’s railway station in Kajiado town ...

Nairobi — KENYA'S MAASAI community has taken on the British-owned Magadi Soda Company by registering a company that will set up a parallel operation to process soda ash in a campaign aimed at forcing ...

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India's Tata Chemicals has opened a $100 million soda ash plant here that enhances the capacity of its Kenyan subsidiary and places this East African nation on the global map for the production of ...