East African Cables has commissioned a copper production factory in Nairobi. As part of the firm’s corporate growth strategy, East African Cables has completed refurbishment and upgrade works at its Kitui Road copper production plant at a cost of Ksh1 billion.
This involved construction of a new factory building and installation of modern cable and conductors manufacturing equipment. The factory will be officially opened in September. Outgoing East African Cables Group Managing Director George Mwangi, said this is critical as copper cables and conductors remain the firm’s main business, and the factory will enable it to supply the East and Central African region as it triples the firm’s copper cables and conductors’ manufacturing capacity.
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“Until last year,” Mr Mwangi said, “the Copper plant has had capacity constraints, although we had invested in a higher capacity for the drawing machine (the first step in cable making), the rest of the processes had bottlenecks that limited our potential to engage in efficient production.”
From a turnover of Ksh800M in 2004 when TransCentury acquired majority stake in the business, East African Cables has expanded to a turnover of Ksh5b.
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