Total Aluminium opens Abuja factory

IN the wake of on-going standardisation of aluminium roofing sheets, the sole and authorised representative of Sunstone - a stone chip coated roof brands in Nigeria, Messrs Total Aluminium Systems Limited, has commissioned its Abuja factory in a bid to strengthen its northern operations.The decision to open the factory, which is built on two hectares of land, is in response to the yearnings of the consumers, especially northern distributors and other trade partners who have for years been urging the company to site a factory in the area to enhance easy access to the products.The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Chief Frank Owelle, stated that Total Aluminium regards feedbacks from trade partners as an important factor required for growth. With the factory fully on ground, the fear of not having access to aluminium products will be a thing of the past.'Owelle also stated that the company is refocusing the northern market as it has concluded arrangement to site a sister company; North South Aluminium Company in Kano to complement what would be coming out of the Abuja factory.Speaking further, the chief executive officer disclosed that the company has spent millions of naira on importation of machineries and sourcing of manpower from both local and foreign markets to modernise the factory and raise it to international standard.As part of the ways to make the factory, which is located in Karu, an outskirt of the city, conducive for workers, he indicated that a staff quarter, which can accommodate 65 per cent of the work force has been built within the place. Earlier, in his speech the managing director, has stated that the new factory would provide direct and indirect employment to between 200 and 250 people.On the impact that the factory will have on the nation's economy, he said; 'In line with the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan's administration and his vision 2020 dream, the opening of an Abuja factory for our company will complement the government drive to fix the country's infrastructural challenges.'A director of the company, Leo Nwalozie, an engineer, said roofing sheets with 'twin capillary groove' that will henceforth be offered by the company is unique in the nation's real estate industry as it would help builders forestall leakages.Explaining the capacity of the machinery, a foreign technical partner, Mr. Hong Li Quan, said: 'It is unique in the sense that it produces roofing sheet from 0.4 tick above, adding that in line with the demand of the management, it was specially designed to meet the specification of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), in its quest to wipe out substandard roofing product from the country.
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