Mineral Constructions Company returns to production

The Mineral Construction and Mechanical Industries Company is one of the first public industrial corporations that was able to surpass terrorism that affected its infrastructure, machinery and equipment since 2013. So, the company’s cadres returned to its main office in Adra in the countryside of Damascus and rehabilitated it. They implemented its production plan with contracts with a number of public agencies worth billions of pounds.

The company’s technical staff rehabilitated the machines and bridge cranes and extended electricity cables.  The concerted efforts resulted in rehabilitating the company by 75 percent as it was, thanks to the national expertise without the need to import any parts which in turn saved billions of pounds on the state treasury.

Director General of the Company Mohammad Kamal Al-Idlibi pointed out that the company has signed contracts worth 2 billion pounds with the General Electricity Company, with the aim of providing it with electric towers. In addition to that, it is currently implementing external projects, including the manufacture of oil tanks with a capacity of 500 cubic meters, maintenance of cement kilns in Adra Cement Company and increasing the capacity of its furnaces from 500 to 1000 Tons. It is also carrying out maintenance operations in factories, hospitals and solar energy projects at Damascus University.

Al-Idlibi indicated that the company’s entire production is marketed by virtue of it’s working according to demand. It purchased raw materials of iron worth one billion pounds in order to continue production.

In his turn, Eng. Imad Al-Agha, Director of Production, pointed out that the company’s work is focused on manufacturing steam boilers according to international technical specifications with different capacities.

Rami Kaddoura, the director of financial affairs of the company, outlined the difficulties that the company suffers from, such as a lack of technical, labor and administrative staff and electricity outage that increases the cost of production in addition to the old of machines. Nonetheless,   the company did not stop production, but rather rehabilitated it’s machines and saved great costs of buying them, he added.

Inas Abdulkareem