Metal & Engineering Corporation (MetEC) is getting ready to make delivery of five spare part manufacturing workshops for the Southern Nation Nationalities People (SNNP) State. The State paid a total of 235 Million Birr for the workshops.
The contract was concluded between the federal owned manufacturer and the State last year. In addition to SSNP State, MetEC concluded the same kind of agreements with the States of Oromia, Harari and Amhara and the city of Dire Dawa in the past year. The agreement was that MetEC will convert the states into factories producing spare parts for flour mills and vehicles.
As part of these deals, MetEC is going to install 42 workshops at a cost of close to two Billion Birr. Out of these 42 workshops, the Corporation has transferred 20 of them to the States of Amhara, Tigray and Oromia.
As to the deal with SNNP State, the workshops are currently being installed in four areas of the State; Dilla, hawassa, Hosaena and Arbamich.
According to MetEc’s Public and Foreign Relations Head, Michael Desta, delivery to the SNNP State is expected to be done by the coming two months.
SSNP is expected to transfer the workshops to Small & Micro Enterprises (SME) and they are each expected to hire 100 employees.
As to the deals MetEC made with the four states and the city administration, Michael commented, “We are currently only receiving t commitment to pay the money from the regional states in order to hand over the workshops”. He furthered, “the States will pay the total money for the MetEC in five years”.
According to the Public and Foreign Relations Head, by these agreements MetEC aims to increase Ethiopia’s manufacturing industry, create job opportunities and manufacture spare parts locally.
He added mechanical and technical training is going to be given to employees if the workshops.
The machines MetEc is going to install are manufactured by Hibret Manufacturing and Machine Building Industry, which is one of MetEC’s companies engaged in manufacturing industrial machinery and spare parts.
According to Michael, phase two of the construction of workshops will commence once the current phase has been complete.
Source: Fortune
