Nigeria’s Biggest Pipe Factory May Be Shut Down Soon Due To Recession

Following a while of remaining inert, the nation's greatest pipe processing plant claimed by SCC Nigeria Limited might be closed down soon as it thinks about absence of support in the midst of the retreat shaking the nation. 

The organization had in October a year ago introduced the 280,000-ton ultra-cutting edge steel pipe fabricating plant in Ushafa, Abuja, with President Muhammadu Buhari spoke to by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, on the event. 

The Project Co-ordinator, SCC Nigeria, Mr. Festus Onyenenue, talked with our reporter on the sidelines of a voyage through the office by a few members of the 6th Practical Content Conference. 

Onyenenue said the last creation the industrial facility did was for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, with the conveyance finished in September. 

He said, "In this processing plant, we have a generation limit of 280,000 tons for helical submerged circular segment welded funnels. And afterward, we additionally have a fresh out of the box new covering plant for three-layer polyethylene covering. However, now, we are sit without moving. Since June, we have no employment to do here and we are as yet keeping our staff and paying pay rates. 

"Today, you met the manufacturing plant thusly in light of the fact that we have a need to deliver a few channels for our own particular interior utilize. Toward the finishing of this venture, this manufacturing plant might be closed down in the following three or four months, and the entire individuals from staff will be requested that go home. Be that as it may, we trust that before then, something new will come in." 

The venture co-ordinator discredited the circumstance in which an immense office that could bring cash into the nation had been sit out of gear due to absence of occupations, saying, "The retreat has compounded the circumstance." 

Onyenenue included that as of the time the organization was delivering, it had around 300 representatives working at the production line. 

He said, "At this moment, at this very moment, I am not certain they are up to 100. What's more, over the long haul, we will keep on reducing the number. In this way, it is as terrible as that. 

"To the best of my insight, there is no other manufacturing plant like this in the nation." 

Asked what should be possible to rescue the circumstance, Onyenenue expressed, "What the administration needs to do is to channel a substantial lump of the pipeline occupations to this production line; the labor here will remain and after that the cash will come into the nation."