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  • Tanzania: Manufacturers Must Support War Against Fake Products

    TANZANIA, 2015/01/30 IN a country witnessing an influx of so a lot of types of imported products, manufacturers have a better role to play in the fight against counterfeit merchandise as they threaten the local market. Businesspersons in the industrial sectors must rise up and join hands with the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) and other sector players to wage a relentless battle to ensure consumer confidence. Manufacturers with the support of the country's standards watchdog must build on the successes completed in the completed decade in curbing the flood of substandard goods and be additional aggressive and innovative to remain competitive.

  • Nigeria: Local Content Policy Should Boost Local Production

    NIGERIA, 2015/01/30 The Managing Director of Schneider Electric, Mr. Walid Sheta, has said the country has great opportunity to diversify its economy and generate significant revenue through its local content policy. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos recently, Sheta, whose portfolio covers Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia, said the ICT local content policy that was introduced by the federal government in 2013, should be able to lead to industrial increase for the country. "Today, most elements in the manufacturing sector are imported and it will be good if the local content is implemented to increase the local part of production. This will improve the diversification of the industrial part of the economy and could absorb the result of the drop of crude oil prices. We believe that the local content policy should encourage additional local manufacturing that can boost the Nigerian economy, aside oil," Sheta said.

  • Rwanda: Govt Commits to Address Manufacturers' Concerns

    RWANDA, 2015/01/13 Government is working toward addressing issues affecting the manufacturing industry performance in the country, the Minister for Trade and Industry, Francois Kanimba, has said. Kanimba made the remarks during an assessment tour of industry operations in Bugesera and Kicukiro Industrial Parks on Thursday. Part the firms visited included Master Steel industry, manufacturing iron sheets, doorframes and iron bars. Located in Kicukiro District, the industry produces 2,000 tonnes of metal objects per month and targets 8,000 tonnes in the near next. The plant has been expanded to start manufacturing metal tubes and nails.

  • Ethiopia: Chamber Research Blasts Government Procurement

    ETHIOPIA, 2015/01/13 A week next of the 11th Public Private Consultation Forum (PPCF) focusing on challenges of the manufacturing sector was held, the fifth round of PPCF between the businesses and the Public Procurement Government Agency (PPAA) addressed the hurdles faced by the four sectors in government procurement process. At the same time, the research was criticised by the Agency's officials as a one-sided research only, by covering the problems on the government side all the while ignoring the business community.

  • Africa's First Insulin Factory

    AFRICA, 2015/01/09 Julphar Pharmaceutical expands existing factory to create insulin factory with aim to make Ethiopia the insulin hub of Africa Julphar Ethiopia Pharmaceutical Industry, which was inaugurated in February 2013, is introducing what it says will be Africa's initial insulin factory, as an expansion of the existing factory. The company was established with a capital of 170 million Br, with a 55pc share being owned by UAE-based Julphar Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries, and a 45pc share by Ethiopian company, Med-tech Ethiopia. The insulin facility will begin construction in a month's time in front of the existing facility at Gerji, in Bole District. "We are hoping that the land for construction will be handed over to us in the next two weeks," Mukemil Abdella, country director of Julphar Pharmaceutical Industry told Fortune.

  • Ethiopia: Is the Third Industrial Revolution Closer?

    ETHIOPIA, 2015/01/09 Technology innovators and CEOs seem positively giddy nowadays about what the next will bring. New manufacturing technologies have generated feverish excitement about what some see as a Third Industrial Revolution. In the years ahead, technological improvements in robotics and automation will boost productivity and efficiency, implying significant economic gains for companies. But, unless the proper policies to nurture job increase are put in place, it remains uncertain whether request for labor will continue to grow as technology marches forward. Recent technological advances have three biases: They tend to be capital-intensive (thus favoring those who by presently have financial resources); skill-intensive (thus favoring those who by presently have a high level of technical proficiency); and labor-saving (thus reducing the total number of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in the economy). The risk is that robotics and automation will displace workers in blue-collar manufacturing jobs before the dust of the Third Industrial Revolution settles.

  • Nigeria Collapse of the Manufacturing Sector

    NIGERIA, 2015/01/09 The General Secretary of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Dr. Peter Oso-Eson, has stated that Nigeria is extremely in need of drastic action to ensure that the country's economy does not collapse. During his recent interactive conference with members of Labour Writers' Association of Nigeria (LAWAN) in Lagos , he was optimistic that Nigerians will rise above and overcome the ongoing socio-economic challenges. Senior Correspondent, Sylvester Enoghase, was there. Excerpts: What is the Congress' position on the current socio-economic and political situations in the country? I think it is a very genuine question, but you know it is like asking me to transaction with the whole burden of this country. But we recently have become very worried because the socio-political problem in our country today frightens us so much that recently, we decided that apart from the issues in the press statement, we needed to address a formal letter on the situation in the country to the President of the country and we did.

  • Africa: Greener Nylon Production Could Cut Costs and Pollution

    AFRICA, 2015/01/09 A greener and additional-efficient way of making nylon set out in a recent paper could cut production costs, benefiting the developing nations that make and use the material. Nylon is widely manufactured around the world, but current industrial production methods are responsible for five to eight % of world anthropogenic emissions of nitrous oxide, which depletes the atmosphere\'s ozone layer and has a greenhouse result. The new technique, developed by scientists from National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, promises to reduce harmful chemical emissions by using bubbles of ozone gas and ultraviolet light to produce adipic acid, a precursor to nylon.

  • Africa’s potential has been defined by its abundant natural resources.

    ETHIOPIA, 2014/03/02 A factory whirring with dozens of technicians producing high-quality sportswear is an atypical image of Africa. For a long time, Africa’s potential has been defined by its abundant natural resources. From presently on this story may be changing as a handful of African economies try to follow the path paved by the Asian ‘Tigers’ before them – to become world manufacturing centers. African nations lack the industrial capability that their Asian counterparts have refined over the last 50 years, but high and rising costs in current manufacturing zones have created an opportunity for them to make up for this lack of experience with cost savings.

  • S. Africa November Factory Gate Inflation

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/11/28 South Africa's factory gate inflation weakened in October, and missed economists' expectations, new data showed Thursday. The manufacturing producer price index increased 6.3 % in October from a year before, following a 6.7 % gain in September. Economists were looking for a 6.4 % gain. The major contributors to the annual increase were food products, beverages and tobacco products, and wood and paper products, data showed.
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