New jobs for Nigerians as international manufacturing firm sets up facility in Lagos Free Zone

• Nigeria continues to unfastened up its doors to overseas investments, and successful a latest development, a planetary shaper has acceptable up store successful Lagos State
• The manufacturing works has been commissioned astatine the Lagos Free Zone, and is projected to unfastened up monolithic occupation opportunities
• Lagos Free Zone is the archetypal privately owned escaped commercialized portion successful Nigeria, with nonstop entree to a heavy seaport

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Guala Closures, a planetary person successful the accumulation of closures for spirits, wine, edible oil, water, and a wide scope of different beverages, has acceptable up a manufacturing works successful Lagos state.

The greenfield manufacturing facility, strategically sited successful the Lagos Free Zone, was inaugurated connected Thursday.

The plant, which spreads crossed 5,000 sqm, was completed wrong six months and reached operational start-up successful 2024.

The manufacturing works is cognition acceptable and astatine afloat capableness volition make monolithic occupation opportunities. Photo credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/George Osodi
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Though sited successful Nigeria, the works volition service markets crossed West Africa, supplying harmless and anti-counterfeiting closures for beverages and spirits, among others.

New jobs underway arsenic shaper starts operations successful Lagos

At afloat capacity, it is projected to unfastened up important occupation opportunities for radical successful the section community.

The connection from the institution connected Thursday noted that its works contained innovative features to nutrient anti-counterfeiting closures that would support consumers successful West African markets.

The PUNCH reports that the inauguration ceremonial was good attended by dignitaries, including the Consul General of Italy successful Lagos, Ugo Boni; CEO of Lagos Free Zone, Adesuwa Ladoja; CEO of Guala Closures, Andrea Lodetti; and galore different executives.

The concern successful Nigeria represents a strategical determination for the institution aft mounting up palmy operations successful Kenya and South Africa, wherever it precocious acquired the installation owned by Astir Vitogiannis successful Johannesburg.

The size and demographics of the Nigerian population, with 200 cardinal people, mostly youths, marque it a bully prime to tract specified a facility.

Company's beingness to tackle counterfeiting

The beverage and spirits marketplace is besides increasing and expanding with an expanding request for premium products that Guala Closures aims to conscionable by serving section businesses and planetary brands with anti-counterfeit closure solutions.

It is besides a continuation of the company’s strategy of moving person to its customers, arsenic has been applied successful its web of 7 R&D centres and 37 accumulation plants worldwide.

Andrea Lodetti, CEO of Guala Closures, said;

“Indeed, our planetary beingness and in-depth cognition of section markets let america to enactment adjacent to our planetary customers, addressing their circumstantial needs successful each portion of the satellite with customized solutions and outstanding service.“By leveraging cutting-edge technologies and maintaining a beardown absorption connected merchandise prime and safety, we purpose to heighten marque individuality portion offering robust extortion against counterfeiting – an progressively captious contented successful the industry.”

Recall that the Nigerian authorities precocious invested N15 cardinal to acceptable up a installation to tackle fake products successful the country.

The CEO noted that Nigeria has a colonisation of implicit 200 cardinal people, with 18 arsenic the median age, making it a large determination to acceptable up business. Photo credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei
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Managing Director and CEO of Lagos Free Zone, Adesuwa Ladoja, commended the institution for its determination to grow into Nigeria by leasing the Standard Industrial Facility astatine the Lagos Free Zone.

Ladoja besides promised to enactment the company's adjacent signifier of maturation successful Nigeria and West Africa.

AfDB asks Nigeria, others to summation manufacturing

In related Legit.ng news, the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, urged presidents of Nigeria and different African countries to instrumentality manufacturing seriously.

He lamented that contempt being the root of galore earthy materials and earthy resources, respective African countries person remained mediocre due to the fact that they follow a pit-to-port approach.

Adesina challenged the presidents to start manufacturing and carrying retired different activities to adhd worth to resources earlier exporting them.

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