Pioneer tools company, the Nigeria Machine Tools Limited, NMT has stated its readiness to commence full production, aimed at delivering value to critical sectors of the economy.

The declaration was made by the company’s Managing Director, Mr. Norbert Chukwumah, at a recent briefing to introduce the new helmsman to the media. Chukwumah noted that since the official handover of the then moribund company by the Bureau of Public Entreprise, BPE, massive investments have gone into transforming NMT into a modern manufacturing company.

He said that the company now has the capacity to produce a diverse range of industrial products and services  to international standards. “We have upgraded our facility, acquired state of the art equipment and developed the highest level of competence in the manufacture of various  products including stud bolts, flanges, machine tools, agricultural implements, municipal castings and technical training, corrosion protection and machining services. NMT is open for business and we are ready and committed to playing our own part in Nigeria’s industrialisation,” he added.

The NMTL boss also told newsmen that the company’s short term objective is to become West Africa’s leading manufacturer of its range of  products.
“We intend to assume leadership of the West African market in the next three years. And, we shall achieve that by focusing on the needs of the markets and delivery of un-compromised quality in every single item that rolls out of the plant backed by  projected technical staff strength of 350 by the end of the year.”

NMTL now produces flanges and stud bolts for the oil and gas industry, assembles and  manufactures  machine tools, and possesses extensive machining  capability (utilising its numerous advanced CNC and conventional machines),  assembles tractors for the agricultural sector and  manufactures ancillary tractor  implements.
Its foundry produces municipal  castings,  gratings and manhole covers, brake blocks for the railways, machine spares, ball crushers for the cement industry and quarry operators  and a range  of other foundry products as determined by the needs of the client.

There  is also a newly installed state of the art  PTFE coating  plant  and hot dip galvanizing shop to ensure products are finished to client specification. The company said it also has a flourishing  fully equipped  training school, which is open to the public as well as for industries that require training for their technical manpower  in a wide range of technical skill sets.

On the  abundance  of low quality goods in the market, Chukwumah stated that most of the inferior products are imported  from a host of Asian countries, even  as Nigerian  manufacturing  companies  go to great lengths,  in a very  challenging  environment,  to  manufacture  products of very high quality.