A new manufacturing platform will provide unprecedented opportunities and access to accelerate the industrialisation of the African continent. Taking place in May 2023, Future Manufacturing Africa Trade Fair & Summit will gather local and international companies to showcase and demonstrate new technologies, machinery, and equipment to enable African industries to invest in to enable them […]
South Africa is on a drive to broaden the existing pool of Black Industrialists. The objective is to accelerate transformation, ensuring that Black-owned businesses become active players in the mainstream economy.
Yannick Folly/AFP via Getty Images Agbaje Lateef, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso Nigeria’s cotton production has fallen steeply in recent years. It once supported the largest textile industry in Africa. The fall is due to weak demand for cotton and to poor yields resulting from planting low-quality cottonseeds.
Accra, Ghana//-President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo today commissioned the multimillion dollar state-of-the-art expanded Nestle Ghana’s cereal plant at Tema Industrial Area near Accra in the Greater Accra Region.
German carmaker Mercedes-Benz is recalling almost 1m older vehicles from around the world because of potential problems with their braking system.
Accra, Ghana//-Ghana’s immune booster manufacturer, COA Research and Manufacturing Company Limited has relaunched its immune booster and general wellbeing medicine called COA Mixture in Accra.
The Board of the Komenda Sugar Factory has announced that it will import raw sugar to support what will be produced locally in order to operationalize the Komenda Sugar Factory.
Nigeria is intent on increasing local manufacturing. Nestle/Wikimedia Commons Michael E Odijie, UCL and Poorva Karkare Nigeria has a strong ambition to industrialise. It has relied heavily on the restriction of imports of certain goods targeted for domestic production.
Accra, Ghana//—West Africa has an opportunity to build an integrated textiles value chain, creating thousands of better jobs and introducing innovative sustainable fabric production technologies, thanks to a new partnership announced today between IFC and DTRT Apparel Group, the region’s largest clothing manufacturer.
Nestlé today announced a new key innovative plan to tackle child labour risks in cocoa production.
