[ 2016-02-07 ]

Zoomlion creates 11,200 new jobs
Zoomlion one of Ghana’s top waste management
firms boasts of over 75, 000 staff in running its
operations.

The Executive Chairman of Zoomlion and the Jospong
Group of Companies, Mr Joseph Siaw Agyepong,
revealed this during the handing over trucks and
tricycles by President John Dramani Mahama at the
Trade Fair Center Febuary 5, 2016.

He added that, the additional machinery handed
over to his firm will enable them not only
effectively carry out their operations, but employ
about 11, 200 more people in efforts to curb the
high rate of unemployment in the country

The company which has been in existence since 2006
also listed among other achievements, the
establishment of a waste management school under
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology KNUST.

President John Mahama, guest speaker at the
ceremony held by waste management company
Zoomlion, to present 400 waste trucks and 5,000
motorised tricycles to Metropolitan, Municipal and
District Assemblies (MMDAs) outlined measures that
had been taken by the government to ensure proper
waste disposal and management particularly the
creation of waste transfer stations and recycling
plants

He reiterated that the discharge of raw waste into
the sea at Korle Gonno in Accra would stop and
'Lavender Hill' closed down by the end of August
this year, after the completion of the Mudor
Faecal Treatment Plant adjacent the dump site.

An exhibition was mounted by some subsidiaries of
the Zoomliom Group of Companies, such as the Accra
Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP), Zoompak,
Yeeco Plastics, the Universal Plastic Products and
Recycling Ltd (UPPR) and KNUST Africa Institute
for Sanitation and Waste Management (K-AISWAM).

Source - Ghanaweb

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