Thursday, December 09, 2010

Trail Blazing Maker:Innoson Vehicles-From Plastics to Automobiles

The Daily Sun interviews Innocent Chukwuma founder of Innoson Vehicles (covered earlier), Nigeria's first indigenous vehicle manufacturing company:

On sourcing components:
Innoson Assemby line
Vehicles have many plastic components and I have a flourishing plastic company, which is among the biggest in Africa. So I began to research into how many vehicles components that could be sourced locally and I discovered that a lot of them could be produced here. That was how I took off.
Outlining their product range:
Innoson Buses
We manufacture different types of vehicles and they include Pick-up vans, buses, Sports Utility Vans (SUV). We also manufacture tricycles popularly called keke NAPEP. Our vehicles are built with the state of the roads in the country in mind. We know that our roads are not good so we decided to make our vehicles rugged enough to withstand the shocks on the road. So our vehicles are more rugged than the imported ones because we are the ones that are wearing the shoes so we know where it is pinching us. Unlike vehicles that were manufactured for London or New York roads where roads are smooth...[continue reading]

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