Puntland Machining

Omar Farjac discusses the need for Machine Tool plants:

When a part or component of the plants fails or breaks down during plant operations, then the whole factory/plant's production ceased, spare parts had to be ordered from whoever built the factory in the first place. This was a common decapitating problem in our country.
Somalia had paid a major price by depending on foreign companies to supply the core spare parts and the basic components to smoothly run the nation's production factories. Although Somalia had managed to buy some Manual Milling and turning machines, but the factories spare parts demand was always higher than the supply or the know how capability for the major parts was never there and could not be manufactured in our country...[continue reading]

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