Dangote Sinotruk Automobile expands

Aliko Dangote

As the budding automobile company, Dangote Sinotruk West Africa Limited (https://Dangote.com), entered another phase in its expansion drive, it has said that it was increasing its local input into the assembling plant to up to 60 percent, even as it plans to roll out commercial vehicles soon.

The expansion drive, which is part of the backward integration plan, is meant to enhance value addition and local content.

Hikmat Thapa of DSA made this known during a facility tour of the Ikeja plant by the Lagos State Commissioner of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Olayinka Oladunjoye.

He said having done with the phase one of the project, DSA has embarked on the phase two which has to do with adding of the facility for cab welding, painting & trimming.

He stated that the third phase of the project expansion would be to add the facility that would be used to fabricate, paint & assemble different types of trailer bodies, load bodies with dual & triple axles, tipper bodies & tankers and so on.

He explained that DSA has installed capacity to assemble and produce 15 –16 trucks per shift or 10,000 trucks annually and will create over 3,000 different jobs across Nigeria.

The Commissioner expressed surprise at the level of activities going on at the plant and commended the entrepreneur spirit of Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chairman, Dangote Group, whose businesses are geared towards touching lives.

Dangote Sinotruk West Africa Limited is a joint venture between Dangote Industries Limited and Sinotruck of China with the total investment of $100 million formed for assembling different type of Trucks, with the Nigerian Dangote Industries owing 65 percent equity and 35 percent by Sinotruk.